Quelccaya Ice Cap
The Quelccaya Ice Cap is the second largest glaciated area in the tropics, after Coropuna. Located in the Cordillera Oriental section of the Andes mountains in Peru, the cap covers an area of 42.8 square kilometres with ice up to 200 metres thick.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Edubucher, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Glacier
- Description: glacier in Peru
- Also known as: “Quelccaya”, “Quelccaya Glacier”, and “Quelccaya Ice field”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Joyllor Puñuna and Jatun Quenamari.
Joyllor Puñuna
Peak
Joyllor Puñuna is a mountain in the Vilcanota mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about 5,743 m high. It is situated on the border of the regions of Cusco and Puno. Joyllor Puñuna is the highest elevation on the Quelccaya Ice Cap.
Jatun Quenamari
Peak
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Jatun Quenamari is a mountain in the Vilcanota mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about 5,400 metres high. It is situated in the Puno Region, Carabaya Province, Corani District.
Cuncunani
Peak
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Cuncunani is a mountain in the Vilcanota mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about 5,400 metres high. It is situated in the Puno Region, Carabaya Province, Corani District.
Quelccaya Ice Cap
- Categories: ice field, ice cap, and landform
- Location: Carabaya Province, Puno, Peru, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-13.9251° or 13° 55′ 31″ southLongitude
-70.8135° or 70° 48′ 49″ westOpen location code
57RF35FP+WHOpenStreetMap ID
way 228410036OpenStreetMap feature
natural=glacierWikidata ID
Q932333
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Satellite Map
Discover Quelccaya Ice Cap from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Catalan to Spanish—“Quelccaya Ice Cap” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “glacera Quelccaya”
- Catalan: “Glacera Quelccaya”
- Chinese: “奎爾卡亞冰蓋”
- French: “calotte glaciaire de Quelccaya”
- French: “Calotte glaciaire de Quelccaya”
- German: “Quelccaya-Eiskappe”
- Hungarian: “Quelccaya-gleccser”
- Japanese: “クエルカヤ氷冠”
- Persian: “یخچال کوئلکایا”
- Portuguese: “Calota de gelo de Quelccaya”
- Quechua: “Qillqaya Rit’ipampa”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ledena kapa Quelccaya”
- Spanish: “Campo de Hielo Quelccaya”
- Spanish: “Capa de Hielo Quelccaya”
- Spanish: “Glaciar Quelccaya”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Quelccaya Ice Cap”. Photo: Edubucher, CC BY-SA 3.0.