Mount Ojos del Salado

The peaks of Mounts Bonete, Ojos del Salado, and Pissis surpass 20,000 feet.

…feet; Licancábur, 19,409 feet; and Ojos del Salado, 22,614 feet. After the last glaciation the melting waters collected in shallow lakes in the intermediate elevated basins. Today these salt lake basins (salares), the most noted of which is the Atacama Salt Flat, are evaporating to the point of disappearing. Farther…

…and the world’s tallest volcano, Ojos del Salado (6,893 metres), is one of these peaks. The Andean range, however, is more than just a chain of volcanoes, and its highest peak, Mount Aconcagua (6,959 metres), the tallest outside Asia, is not volcanic. Crustal shortening and crustal thickening occur all along…