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Mountain · Cordillera de Talamanca

Cerro Chirripó

3,820 m12,533 ft

Prominence: 3,727 m12,228 ft
Isolation: at least 200 km
Region: Costa Rica
Tonight: 4°CFog · Wind 4 km/h SW

Cerro Chirripó is a 3,820 m (12,533 ft) mountain in the Cordillera de Talamanca, Costa Rica.

All facts

Elevation: 3,820 m · 12,533 ft
Range: Cordillera de Talamanca
Protected area: Chirripó National Park
Coordinates: 9.4840° N, 83.4885° W

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3D map

Cerro Chirripó 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Cerro Chirripó terrain and contours

100 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

Index contours every 500 mShowing west → east through the summit

Cerro Chirripó elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Cerro Chirripó weather

Tonight · Fog · 4°C (39°F) · Wind 4 km/h SW

Cerro Chirripó forecast for the summit, about 3,820 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,449 m.

Tonight4°–4 km/h SWBase 18°
Sat3°10°27.4 mm9 km/h SWBase 18 / 24°
Sun2°9°12.5 mm11 km/h SWBase 16 / 23°
Mon3°10°5.8 mm13 km/h SWBase 17 / 24°
Tue2°10°1.1 mm5 km/h SWBase 17 / 24°
Wed3°9°1.8 mm3 km/h SWBase 18 / 23°
Thu3°7°14.9 mm3 km/h SWBase 18 / 22°
Fri3°7°12.3 mm4 km/h NEBase 17 / 21°
Sat1°9°4.6 mm6 km/h NEBase 16 / 24°
Sun4°8°4.9 mm4 km/h NEBase 18 / 22°

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Cerro Chirripó

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Cerro Chirripó, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

Nearest hut
Base Los Crestones
3.6 km SSW · +1 more within 7.0 km
Directions Map

All mapped places 2

Place	Distance
Base Los CrestonesHut	3.6 km SSW
Llano BonitoHut	7.0 km WSW

Slope

Share of the 19 × 19 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.

Gentle, 0–15°

14.4%

Moderate, 15–30°

50.4%

Steep, 30–45°

33.6%

Cliffs, 45° and over

1.7%

Steeper than 30°: 35.3% of the 361 km² view
Relief in view: 2,363 m low point 1,449 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 88.2%Grassland 11.7%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 9.5 km, measured from the Cerro Chirripó summit.

Summit list 9

1Cerro Pirámide3,807 m 0.5 km SSE
2Cerro Noreste3,744 m 1.2 km SSE
3Cerro Laguna3,761 m 2.2 km NNE
4Lomo Larga3,724 m 2.5 km NNW
5Cerro Ventisqueros3,817 m 2.6 km WSW
6Macizo de Chirripó Grande3,749 m 2.6 km NNE
7Cerro Segundo3,755 m 2.6 km NNE
8Cerro Sureste3,733 m 2.7 km SSE
9Cerro Terbi3,762 m 3.1 km SSW

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 9.5 km; 908 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Emerald Swift174
Volcano Junco89
Sooty Thrush66
Fly Agaric58
Spotted Wood-Quail53
Stalked puffball-in-aspic41

Where it sits

Where Cerro Chirripó sits

Ranked in 1

#25 Country high points

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Poás VolcanoPeak · 2,708 m114 km NW

Cerro Chirripó downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGCerro Chirripó satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2025-03-20.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

within 10 m This 3D map reads 3,812 m at the summit; the official height is 3,820 m.

A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	3,820 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	3,812 m	-8 m
Copernicus GLO-90	3,793 m	-27 m

Data sources

Terrain: Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025 (scene 2025-03-20)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Accuracy comparison, Panorama: Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia

Cerro Chirripó

West → east through the summit

Nearest hut

Data sources