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Illampu

6,485 m21,276 ft

Mapped trail: 5.6 km+1,042 m · about 3 h · T3Ends 1,130 m below the summit.
Prominence: 491 m1,611 ft
Tonight: -11°CLight snow showers · Wind 9 km/h S

Illampu is a 6,485 m (21,276 ft) mountain in the Cordillera Real, La Paz Department, Bolivia.

All facts

Elevation: 6,485 m · 21,276 ft
Range: Cordillera Real
Region: La Paz Department, Bolivia
Coordinates: 15.8163° S, 68.5435° W

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Route

Trails toward Illampu

Mapped trails from the road get to 1,130 m below the summit, typically a pass, lake or camp. The top itself is a mountaineering climb with no mapped route.

From Road end, 5.4 km WNW of Illampu

Distance: 5.6 kmone way
Climb: +1,042 m−37 m (3,419 ft up)
Time up: about 3 h
Difficulty: T3Demanding: exposed spots, some easy scrambling

Illampu elevation profile

Ends 1,130 m below the summit.

Download GPX (free, ODbL)KML

Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.

3D map

Illampu 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Illampu 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.

Index contours every 500 mShowing west → east through the summit

West → east through the summit

Hover the profile to read elevation and distance.Tap or drag along the profile to read elevation and distance.

Weather

Illampu weather

Tonight · Light snow showers · -11°C (12°F) · 0.5 mm · Wind 9 km/h S

Illampu forecast for the summit, about 6,485 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 4,068 m.

Tonight-11°0.5 mm9 km/h SBase 4°
Sat-10°-2°3.2 mm13 km/h NBase 5 / 15°
Sun-13°-3°25.6 mm15 km/h NEBase 2 / 14°
Mon-12°-7°4.3 mm5 km/h SBase 4 / 10°
Tue-12°-6°5.6 mm5 km/h NWBase 3 / 10°
Wed-12°-8°20.3 mm4 km/h NEBase 3 / 9°
Thu-12°-6°0.3 mm5 km/h SBase 3 / 12°
Fri-10°-5°2.0 mm5 km/h NBase 5 / 11°
Sat-10°-4°2.6 mm4 km/h NWBase 5 / 12°
Sun-11°-3°1.7 mm4 km/h NBase 5 / 13°

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

Camping & parking near Illampu

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

Nearest campsite
Campamento en Laguna Glaciar Sorata
2.9 km WSW · +2 more within 5.2 km
Directions Map

All mapped places 3

Place	Distance
Campamento en Laguna Glaciar SorataCampsite	2.9 km WSW
Punto de Campamento PosibleCampsite	3.8 km WNW
Punto de Campamento PosibleCampsite	5.2 km WNW

Slope

How steep is the route to Illampu?

The easiest mapped route, 5.6 km from 4,068 m to 5,073 m. Steepest stretch: 24°.

0 km · 4,068 m5.6 km · 5,073 m

0–15°3.9 km
15–30°1.7 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 66.7%Bare rock / sparse 25.5%Grassland 6.6%Water 1.3%

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

Where it sits

Where Illampu sits

Ranked in 1

#23 Treks and hikes in the Andes

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Valle de la Luna96 km SSE

Downloads

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

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Print & wall

JPGIllampu satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2024-06-09.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

GPXIllampu GPX / KML route downloadIn the route section. Mapped route for GPS apps and Google Earth, under the ODbL.

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

286 m low This 3D map reads 6,199 m at the summit; the official height is 6,485 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 297 m.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	6,485 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	6,199 m	-286 m
Copernicus GLO-90	6,188 m	-297 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 2024 (scene 2024-06-09)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
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

Illampu

From Road end, 5.4 km WNW of Illampu

West → east through the summit

Nearest campsite

Data sources