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Huayna Potosí
- Easiest route
- 4.9 km+1,282 m · about 3.5 h · T5
- Prominence
- 1,185 m3,889 ft
- Isolation
- 43 km
- Tonight
- -8°CLight snow · Wind 11 km/h SW
Huayna Potosí is a 6,088 m (19,974 ft) mountain in the Cordillera Real, La Paz Department, Bolivia.
All facts
- Elevation
- 6,088 m · 19,974 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Ch'iyar Juqhu (6,104 m)
- Range
- Cordillera Real
- Region
- La Paz Department, Bolivia
- Coordinates
- 16.2626° S, 68.1538° W
How to get to the top of Huayna Potosí
The shortest mapped route from where a car can get you. None is a walk: expect scrambling, snow or glacier.
From Road end, 3.7 km SE of Huayna Potosí
- Distance
- 4.9 kmone way
- Climb
- +1,282 m−6 m (4,206 ft up)
- Time up
- about 3.5 h
- Difficulty
- T5Demanding alpine: scrambling, possible snow or glacier
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Huayna Potosí 3D map
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Huayna Potosí terrain and contours
100 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
Huayna Potosí weather
Tonight · Light snow · -8°C (18°F) · 1.8 mm · Wind 11 km/h SW
Huayna Potosí forecast for the summit, about 6,088 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 4,777 m.
- Tonight-8°1.8 mm11 km/h SWBase 0°
- Sat-8°3°1.0 mm22 km/h WBase 0 / 10°
- Sun-9°1°10.6 mm22 km/h NEBase 0 / 8°
- Mon-9°-1°7.3 mm18 km/h WBase 1 / 7°
- Tue-10°-1°1.0 mm19 km/h WBase 0 / 6°
- Wed-11°-5°18.8 mm10 km/h NBase -2 / 3°
- Thu-12°-3°–19 km/h WBase -3 / 6°
- Fri-10°0°2.6 mm17 km/h NWBase -1 / 6°
- Sat-9°2°1.0 mm20 km/h WBase -1 / 8°
- Sun-10°2°–12 km/h WBase -2 / 8°
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 Huayna Potosí
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Huayna Potosí, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
Campamento Base
Nearest hut
Refugio Huayna Potosi Alto Campo
All mapped places 5
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Campamento BaseCampsite | 1.9 km SE |
| Refugio Huayna Potosi Alto CampoHut | 1.9 km SE |
| Jiwaki High CampHut | 1.9 km SE |
| Casa de GuiasHut | 2.0 km SE |
| Campamento Maria LlokoCampsite | 5.2 km SW |
How steep is the route to Huayna Potosí?
The easiest mapped route, 4.9 km from 4,777 m to 6,088 m. Steepest stretch: 31°.
- 0–15°2.5 km
- 15–30°2.4 km
- 30–45°0.1 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 60 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.
Where Huayna Potosí sits
- Region
- La Paz Department6Bolivia21South America235
Ranked in 1
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Huayna Potosí downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
22 m low This 3D map reads 6,066 m at the summit; the official height is 6,088 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 43 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 6,088 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 6,066 m | -22 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 6,045 m | -43 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 2025-07-06)
- 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)
- 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