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Marmolejo

6,108 m20,039 ft
Prominence
343 m1,124 ft
Isolation
2.1 km
Tonight
-33°CFog · Wind 7 km/h W

Marmolejo is a 6,108 m (20,039 ft) volcano in the Andes, Mendoza Province, Chile.

All facts
Elevation
6,108 m · 20,039 ft
Nearest higher peak
Alto San Juan (6,148 m)
Range
Andes
Region
Mendoza Province, Chile
Spanish name
Cerro El Marmolejo
Coordinates
33.7174° S, 69.8643° W
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Marmolejo 3D map

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Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

Marmolejo terrain and contours

100 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.

Index contours every 500 mShowing west → east through the summit

Marmolejo elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Marmolejo weather

Tonight · Fog · -33°C (-27°F) · Wind 7 km/h W

Marmolejo forecast for the summit, about 6,108 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 3,867 m.

  • Tonight-33°–7 km/h WBase -19°
  • Sat-32°-22°1.2 mm9 km/h SWBase -19 / -9°
  • Sun-30°-15°4.9 mm9 km/h WBase -17 / -1°
  • Mon-24°-18°17.8 mm7 km/h WBase -10 / -5°
  • Tue-28°-18°–3 km/h SWBase -14 / -5°
  • Wed-26°-15°–1 km/h WBase -13 / -1°
  • Thu-32°-16°0.2 mm6 km/h WBase -18 / -2°
  • Fri-25°-15°0.1 mm5 km/h WBase -12 / -1°
  • Sat-24°-16°0.7 mm8 km/h WBase -11 / -3°
  • Sun-30°-18°1.6 mm7 km/h WBase -16 / -5°

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.

Slope

Slope

Share of the 6 × 6 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly steep: more than half the view is steeper than 30°, the angle of most avalanche terrain.

Gentle, 0–15°
11.2%
Moderate, 15–30°
37.0%
Steep, 30–45°
36.9%
Cliffs, 45° and over
14.9%
Steeper than 30°
51.8% of the 36 km² view
Relief in view
2,241 m low point 3,867 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Snow & ice 72.2%Bare rock / sparse 27.6%

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

Where it sits

Where Marmolejo sits

Range
American Cordillera467Andes163
Region
Chile76Mendoza Province5Argentina42South America235
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Nearby

Nearby places

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Downloads

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

121 m low This 3D map reads 5,987 m at the summit; the official height is 6,108 m.Official 6,108 m90 m model 5,976 mThis map 5,987 m

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 132 m.

SourceSummitDifference
Official height (Wikidata)6,108 m—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)5,987 m-121 m
Copernicus GLO-905,976 m-132 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 2026-03-18)
Land cover
© ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts
Wikidata (CC0)
Summits
© OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
Wildlife
iNaturalist community observations, counts only
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