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Sairecabur · 5,961 m · 13 km N

Stratovolcano · Cordillera Occidental · Potosí Department

Licancabur

5,920 m19,423 ft

Easiest route: 3.4 km+1,301 m · about 3 h · T5
Prominence: 1,440 m4,726 ft
Isolation: 13 km
Tonight: -9°CCloudy · Wind 18 km/h W

Licancabur is a 5,920 m (19,423 ft) stratovolcano in the Cordillera Occidental, Potosí Department, Chile.

All facts

Elevation: 5,920 m · 19,423 ft
Nearest higher peak: Sairecabur (5,961 m)
Range: Cordillera Occidental
Region: Potosí Department, Chile
Spanish name: Volcán Licancabur
Coordinates: 22.8349° S, 67.8826° W

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Route

How to get to the top of Licancabur

The shortest mapped route from where a car can get you. None is a walk: expect scrambling, snow or glacier.

From Road end, 3.0 km ENE of Licancabur

Distance: 3.4 kmone way
Climb: +1,301 m−10 m (4,268 ft up)
Time up: about 3 h
Difficulty: T5Demanding alpine: scrambling, possible snow or glacier

Licancabur elevation profile

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

Licancabur 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Licancabur 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

Licancabur weather

Tonight · Cloudy · -9°C (16°F) · Wind 18 km/h W

Licancabur forecast for the summit, about 5,920 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 4,616 m.

Tonight-9°–18 km/h WBase -1°
Sat-12°-1°1.6 mm38 km/h WBase -5 / 7°
Sun-13°0°–27 km/h WBase -5 / 7°
Mon-12°-2°0.3 mm26 km/h WBase -4 / 6°
Tue-13°-1°–25 km/h WBase -6 / 6°
Wed-13°-2°3.8 mm21 km/h WBase -5 / 6°
Thu-17°-6°2.5 mm23 km/h WBase -9 / 2°
Fri-15°-3°–19 km/h WBase -7 / 5°
Sat-13°-2°–25 km/h WBase -5 / 6°
Sun-12°0°–18 km/h WBase -4 / 7°

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.

Slope

How steep is the route to Licancabur?

The easiest mapped route, 3.4 km from 4,616 m to 5,920 m. Steepest stretch: 50°.

0 km · 4,616 m3.4 km · 5,920 m

0–15°1.1 km
15–30°1.8 km
30–45°0.4 km

Grades are averaged between profile points about 40 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Bare rock / sparse 79.9%Grassland 18.0%Water 2.1%

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

Where it sits

Where Licancabur sits

Ranked in 2

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Aguas CalientesPeak · 5,924 m62 km SSE

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

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Print & wall

JPGLicancabur satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-08-30.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

GPXLicancabur 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?

within 10 m This 3D map reads 5,924 m at the summit; the official height is 5,920 m.

A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	5,920 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	5,924 m	+4 m
Copernicus GLO-90	5,911 m	-9 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 2026-08-30)
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