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.
- Glacier
- Description: glacier in Peru
- Also known as“Quelccaya”“Quelccaya Glacier”“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…
Quelccaya Ice Cap
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Latitude
-13.9251° or 13° 55′ 31″ south
Longitude
-70.8135° or 70° 48′ 49″ west
Open location code
57RF35FP+WH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=glacier
Wikidata ID
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Spanish—“Quelccaya Ice Cap” goes by many names.
Glacera QuelccayaCatalan
奎爾卡亞冰蓋Chinese
Quelccaya-gleccserHungarian
クエルカヤ氷冠Japanese
یخچال کوئلکایاPersian
Qillqaya Rit’ipampaQuechua
Ledena kapa QuelccayaSerbo-Croatian
Localities in the Area
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