Nevados del Aconquija, Chicligasta Department, Tucumán Province, Argentinai

Regional Level Types
Nevados del Aconquija	Mountain Range
Chicligasta Department	Department
Tucumán Province	Province
Argentina	Country

The "Nevados de Aconquija" are the mountainous cord limítrofre highest among the provinces of Tucumán and Catamarca. It has the highest peaks of the province such as:

"Cerro Bolsón", 5050 metres above sea level,
"Cerro el Zarzo", 5064 metres above sea level,
"Cerro de la Bolsa", 5300 metres above sea level,
"Cerro del Bolsón", 5550 metres above sea level,
"Cerro de las Dos Lagunas" or "Cerro de Los Cóndores", 5450 metres above sea level,
"Cerro Tipillas", 5142 metres above sea level,
"Glaciar Chimberi", 5500 metres above sea level, among the most important.

The Sierra del Aconquija is the natural dividing line between the Argentine provinces of Catamarca and Tucumán, south of the pass known as El Infiernillo. Its maximum heights are recorded in the snow-capped mountains of Cerro del Bolsón (5,552 m s. N. M.); Cerro de las Dos Lagunas and Los Cerrillos at 5,500 meters, Nevado del Candado and Cerro Ñuñorco. The Campo de los Alisos National Park, to the east of it, contains numerous archaeological sites, including La Ciudacita, over 4,000 meters asl.

The Sierra appears as an elongated block that runs northeast-southwest, with a length of 105 km and a width that varies between 40 and 60 kilometers. At its summits, it has a rough appearance that clearly distinguishes it from the other Pampean Sierras, as it ends in an almost continuous ridge of uniform altitude. On the summits of the mountains that exceed 5,000 m, glacial cirques formed during the last ice age.

This mountain range is also known as Nevados del Aconquija since its highest peaks have eternal ice and snow, in fact, there is a glacier, that of Chimberil, on the Tucuman slope.

On the eastern slopes, which are quite steep, the eternal snows (over 4,500 m in summer), mountain meadows, an alpine forest and a dense subtropical forest (yunga) grow, the product of the condensation rains carried by the winds coming from the east; these eastern slopes present narrow and deep ravines through which a large number of rapid and mighty rivers run, among the ravines the Portuguese one stands out, at the base of which is Ibatín and the majestic Quebrada de Los Sosa, there are also spectacular side valleys such as the Siambón or that of San Pedro de Colalao.

The western slope that descends on the Calchaquíes Valleys, on the other hand, is arid and rocky. The Tafí Valley makes a hiatus or separation of the mountain range called Sierra del Aconquija with respect to the Cumbres Calchaquíes that are located north of the mentioned valley.

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Wikipedia:	https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_del_Aconquija
Wikidata ID:	Q6127987

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