Cerro El Muerto


Location

Cerro el Muerto is a range or area at the border of Argentina and Chile. It has a height of. It's located at Atacama Region, Copiapó Province, at the Puna de Atacama. It only receives a handful of climbing attempts every year and most are from the chilean side.

Elevation

It has an official height of 6488 meters, however, based on the elevation provided by the available Digital elevation models, SRTM, ASTER, SRTM filled with ASTER, TanDEM-X, and also a handheld GPS survey by Maximo Kausch on 12/2010, Muerto is about 6510 meters above sea level.
The height of the nearest key col is 4414 meters. so its prominence is 2096 meters. Muerto is listed as range or area, based on the Dominance system and its dominance is 32.2%. Its parent peak is Ojos del Salado and the Topographic isolation is 8 kilometers. This information was obtained during a research by Suzanne Imber in 2014.