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CORDILLERA BLANCA
Natural Heritage of Peru, established in 1975, the
Parque Nacional Huascarán contains all the Cordillera
Blanca (with the exception of the distant Nevado
Champará in its extreme north), the highest range of the
Peruvian Andes and the highest range in the world's
tropical zone. Its total area is approximately 1300
square miles (340,000 hectares), roughly 110 miles (180
km) north-south, and an average of only 12 miles (20 kin)
east-west. Within its boundaries are thirty mountains
above 6000 meters (19686 ft) above sea level (fifteen
are above 20,000 feet, 6096 meters), crowned by Nevado
Huascarán itself at 22205 feet (6768 m). ("Nevado" means
snow-covered peak.) There are another thirty peaks above
18500 feet (5640 in), as well as hundreds of glacial
lakes, rivers, and waterfalls, and an abundance of flora
and fauna.
The Cordillera Blanca is without questions one of the
most magnificent mountain ranges in the world. And no
other range combines its easy access and generally
excellent climate with such an alpine wonderland of
towering, ice-covered peaks. The Cordillera Blanca, the
Parque Nacional Huascarán, is truly a treasure of the
natural heritage of Peru and the entire world, a great
living outdoor museum, and the goal every year of
thousands of mountain climbers, scientists, and other
wilderness lovers from all around the globe.
The park is located in the department (equivalent to a
state or province) of Ancash to the east of the
beautiful Santa Valley known as the Callejón (lane or
corridor) de Huaylas. Huaraz, the principal city of the
Callejón and the department capital is only 400
kilometers by paved highway from Lima, and only 200
kilometers from the Panamerican Highway near Pativilca. |
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