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Chacaltaya
- Easiest route
- 0.9 km+155 m · about 0.5 h · T3
- Prominence
- 670 m2,198 ft
- Isolation
- 7.2 km
- Tonight
- -5°CLight snow · Wind 11 km/h SW
Chacaltaya is a 5,421 m (17,785 ft) mountain in the Cordillera Real, La Paz Department, Bolivia.
All facts
- Elevation
- 5,421 m · 17,785 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Huayna Potosí (6,088 m)
- Range
- Cordillera Real
- Region
- La Paz Department, Bolivia
- Coordinates
- 16.3496° S, 68.1271° W
How to get to the top of Chacaltaya
2 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
Easiest route: from Road end, 0.7 km SW of Chacaltaya
- Distance
- 0.9 kmone way
- Climb
- +155 m−16 m (509 ft up)
- Time up
- about 0.5 h
- Difficulty
- T3Demanding: exposed spots, some easy scrambling
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Chacaltaya 3D map
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Chacaltaya terrain and contours
50 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
West → east through the summit
Chacaltaya weather
Tonight · Light snow · -5°C (23°F) · 1.8 mm · Wind 11 km/h SW
Chacaltaya forecast for the summit, about 5,421 m.
- Tonight-5°1.8 mm11 km/h SW
- Sat-4°6°1.2 mm21 km/h W
- Sun-5°3°12.7 mm18 km/h NE
- Mon-4°3°6.8 mm10 km/h W
- Tue-4°1°4.3 mm12 km/h NW
- Wed-7°-2°17.8 mm9 km/h NE
- Thu-7°2°0.6 mm10 km/h W
- Fri-5°2°3.0 mm9 km/h NW
- Sat-5°4°2.7 mm8 km/h NW
- Sun-6°3°2.4 mm6 km/h N
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:18 UTC.
Camping & parking near Chacaltaya
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Chacaltaya, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest hut
Cabaña Museo Federico Nielsen Reyes
Nearest parking
0.7 km SW
Nearest campsite
Campamento de Alta Montaña
All mapped places 6
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Cabaña Museo Federico Nielsen ReyesHut | 0.7 km SW |
| Parking | 0.7 km SW |
| Parking | 4.3 km WSW |
| Albergue Ecoturistico Comunitario PampalaramaHut | 5.8 km ENE |
| Campamento de Alta MontañaCampsite | 6.6 km ENE |
| Refugio Doña ElviraHut | 6.9 km N |
How steep is the route to Chacaltaya?
The easiest mapped route, 0.9 km from 5,222 m to 5,421 m. Steepest stretch: 31°.
- 0–15°0.6 km
- 15–30°0.3 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 20 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3.3 km; 62 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Andean Goose26
- Gentiana sedifolia12
- Chacaltaya Smooth-throated Lizard11
- Pycnophyllum molle7
- Glacier Finch5
- Mountain Caracara5
Where Chacaltaya sits
- Region
- La Paz Department6Bolivia21South America235
Ranked in 1
Nearby places
Chacaltaya downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
54 m low This 3D map reads 5,367 m at the summit; the official height is 5,421 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 68 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 5,421 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 5,367 m | -54 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 5,353 m | -68 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 2026 (scene 2026-08-08)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Routes, Camping & parking
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- 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