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Illimani

6,438 m21,122 ft

Mapped trail: 5.7 km+1,800 m · about 4.5 h · T4Ends 30 m below the summit.
Prominence: 2,541 m8,337 ft
Tonight: -10°CLight snow · Wind 6 km/h SW

Illimani is a 6,438 m (21,122 ft) mountain in the Cordillera Real, La Paz Department, Bolivia.

All facts

Elevation: 6,438 m · 21,122 ft
Range: Cordillera Real
Region: La Paz Department, Bolivia
Coordinates: 16.6376° S, 67.7885° W

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Route

How to get to the top of Illimani

The shortest mapped walking route from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.

From Road end, 3.9 km WSW of Illimani

Distance: 5.7 kmone way
Climb: +1,800 m−6 m (5,906 ft up)
Time up: about 4.5 h
Difficulty: T4Alpine: faint path, hands needed in places

Illimani elevation profile

The mapped trail ends 30 m below the summit. Above that there is no mapped path: expect glacier, scrambling or open ground, and go with a guide if you have no route-finding experience.

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

Illimani 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 14.2 × 14.2 km

Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Illimani terrain and contours

200 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 1,000 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

Illimani weather

Tonight · Light snow · -10°C (14°F) · 4.6 mm · Wind 6 km/h SW

Illimani forecast for the summit, about 6,438 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 4,476 m.

Tonight-10°4.6 mm6 km/h SWBase 1°
Sat-10°-1°2.0 mm12 km/h SBase 2 / 10°
Sun-10°-3°14.9 mm12 km/h NEBase 2 / 9°
Mon-10°-5°4.3 mm7 km/h WBase 2 / 7°
Tue-12°-5°3.0 mm6 km/h SWBase 0 / 6°
Wed-14°-8°28.0 mm4 km/h SWBase -2 / 3°
Thu-12°-5°0.2 mm3 km/h SWBase 0 / 7°
Fri-10°-5°4.5 mm3 km/h WBase 1 / 6°
Sat-11°-3°1.8 mm4 km/h WBase 1 / 9°
Sun-10°-3°2.3 mm4 km/h EBase 2 / 9°

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, 23:19 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Illimani

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

Nearest campsite
Campamento Nido del Cóndor
2.3 km SW · +2 more within 3.0 km
Directions Map

All mapped places 3

Place	Distance
Campamento Nido del CóndorCampsite	2.3 km SW
Campsite	2.8 km NE
Campsite	3.0 km NNE

Slope

How steep is the route to Illimani?

The easiest mapped route, 5.7 km from 4,476 m to 6,274 m. Steepest stretch: 41°.

0 km · 4,476 m5.7 km · 6,274 m

0–15°2.1 km
15–30°3.1 km
30–45°0.5 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.

Grassland 64.1%Bare rock / sparse 24.2%Snow & ice 9.5%Trees 0.8%Shrubland 0.6%

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

Where it sits

Where Illimani sits

Ranked in 1

#16 Treks and hikes in the Andes

Nearby

Nearby places

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Downloads

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

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Print & wall

JPGIllimani satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-06-11.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

GPXIllimani 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?

135 m low This 3D map reads 6,303 m at the summit; the official height is 6,438 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 141 m.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	6,438 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	6,303 m	-135 m
Copernicus GLO-90	6,297 m	-141 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 2026-06-11)
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

Illimani

From Road end, 3.9 km WSW of Illimani

West → east through the summit

Nearest campsite

Data sources