Laguna Miscanti
- Area
- 13 km²
- Tonight
- -1°CSnow · Wind 19 km/h NW
Laguna Miscanti is a lake at 4,140 m above sea level in Antofagasta Region, Chile, 13 km² in area and 5.9 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 4,140 m
- Length
- 5.9 km
- Shoreline
- 16.4 km
Laguna Miscanti in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 16.4 km≈4 h to walk around
Laguna Miscanti 3D map
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Laguna Miscanti terrain and contours
50 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.
Laguna Miscanti elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Laguna Miscanti weather
Tonight · Snow · -1°C (30°F) · 4.7 mm · Wind 19 km/h NW
Laguna Miscanti forecast for about 4,140 m.
- Tonight-1°4.7 mm19 km/h NW
- Sat-4°6°1.5 mm47 km/h W
- Sun-3°8°–25 km/h NW
- Mon-3°6°2.9 mm31 km/h W
- Tue-5°5°–27 km/h W
- Wed-3°6°4.1 mm27 km/h NW
- Thu-6°1°3.4 mm18 km/h NW
- Fri-5°5°0.2 mm24 km/h NW
- Sat-4°5°–24 km/h NW
- Sun-3°8°–24 km/h NW
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 near Laguna Miscanti
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Laguna Miscanti, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
3.4 km SW
All mapped places 3
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 3.4 km SW |
| Laguna Miscanti/MiñiquesParking | 4.5 km SW |
| Parking | 4.6 km SW |
Slope
Share of the 7.9 × 7.9 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 83% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 0.9% of the 62 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,042 m low point 3,971 m
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 Laguna Miscanti sits
- Region
- Antofagasta Region10Chile76South America235
Nearby places
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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 2026-03-13)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Camping & parking, Geometry
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- 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)