Nature · South summit area · Cordillera Blanca terrain section
Huascarán: terrain elevation and local relief
Huascarán uses an approximately 6,737-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 3,050 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 6,737 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- South summit area · Cordillera Blanca terrain section
- In feet, rounded
- 22,102.2 ft (1 ft = 0.3048 m)
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Terrain boundary, base and datum
- Vertical reference
- EGM2008. Published surveys are separate; no datum conversion is applied.
- Highest sampled surface
- 6736.7 m at -9.120833°, -77.605000°.
- Local base
- 3686.9 m at -9.148056°, -77.650000°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West -77.650139°, east -77.550139°; south -9.148194°, north -9.084861°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 30.5 m east-west and 30.7 m north-south. Lower and surrounding terrain omitted.
produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved
A little more perspective
SERNANP’s Huascarán National Park visitor brochure gives the mountain’s elevation as 6,768 meters. This section is centered on the south summit area, with a Copernicus maximum of approximately 6,737 meters in EGM2008. The maximum lies about 717 meters from the generalized identity coordinate. North and south summits are distinct, and the brochure’s mountain reference is not treated as a present-day measurement of this older ice surface. The same brochure’s small map label reads 6,678 meters, differing from its 6,768-meter explanatory callout; this record cites the callout and preserves the internal disagreement.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 3686.9 meters at -9.148056° latitude, -77.650000° longitude. This produces about 3,050 meters of relief within the stated boundary. It is not a universal mountain base, a route’s total ascent, or topographic prominence.
The rendered surface uses the public 2021 Copernicus release, primarily based on TanDEM-X observations from 2011–2015 with infill from other sources. It is a surface model rather than a current bare-earth survey. Neutral shading explains the geometry without claiming a snow season or photographic ground texture. No datum conversion or summit correction is applied.
Quick facts
Huascarán uses an approximately 6,737-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 3,050 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- SERNANP: Huascarán National Park visitor brochure
- Copernicus DEM: dataset definition, datums and attribution
- Public Copernicus GLO-30 release documentation
- Wikidata: summit-area identity and initial coordinate
- Copernicus source terrain tile 1 (GeoTIFF)
Huascarán’s south summit area is the selected terrain reference. The brochure’s 6,768-meter value and approximately 6,737-meter raster maximum are documented independently.
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