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Parinacota

6,348 m20,827 ft

Mapped trail: 4.7 km+1,501 m · about 3.5 h · T5Ends 10 m below the summit.
Prominence: 1,150 m3,773 ft
Tonight: -10°CCloudy · Wind 13 km/h SW

Parinacota is a 6,348 m (20,827 ft) volcano in the Cordillera Occidental, Arica y Parinacota Region, Chile.

All facts

Elevation: 6,348 m · 20,827 ft
Range: Cordillera Occidental
Region: Arica y Parinacota Region, Chile
Protected area: Lauca National Park
Spanish name: Volcán Parinacota
Coordinates: 18.1618° S, 69.1454° W

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Route

How to get to the top of Parinacota

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

From Road end, 4.7 km E of Parinacota

Distance: 4.7 kmone way
Climb: +1,501 m(4,925 ft up)
Time up: about 3.5 h
Difficulty: T5Demanding alpine: scrambling, possible snow or glacier

Parinacota elevation profile

The mapped trail ends 10 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

Parinacota 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Parinacota 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

Parinacota weather

Tonight · Cloudy · -10°C (14°F) · Wind 13 km/h SW

Parinacota forecast for the summit, about 6,348 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 4,810 m.

Tonight-10°–13 km/h SWBase -1°
Sat-10°0°–24 km/h SWBase -1 / 9°
Sun-11°2°–26 km/h SWBase -2 / 11°
Mon-12°-1°–22 km/h SWBase -2 / 8°
Tue-13°-2°–20 km/h WBase -3 / 8°
Wed-13°-3°0.3 mm22 km/h WBase -4 / 6°
Thu-15°-4°–22 km/h WBase -5 / 6°
Fri-13°0°–21 km/h WBase -3 / 9°
Sat-13°0°–22 km/h WBase -3 / 9°
Sun-12°2°–18 km/h WBase -2 / 12°

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 Parinacota

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

Nearest campsite
Campamento alto
2.5 km NE · +1 more within 4.7 km
Directions Map

All mapped places 2

Place	Distance
Campamento altoCampsite	2.5 km NE
Campamento baseCampsite	4.7 km E

Slope

How steep is the route to Parinacota?

The easiest mapped route, 4.7 km from 4,810 m to 6,315 m. Steepest stretch: 35°.

0 km · 4,810 m4.7 km · 6,315 m

0–15°2.5 km
15–30°1.6 km
30–45°0.7 km

Grades are averaged between profile points about 70 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Bare rock / sparse 87.1%Snow & ice 12.8%

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

Where it sits

Where Parinacota sits

Ranked in 2

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Azapa Valley157 m118 km WSW

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

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Print & wall

JPGParinacota satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-09-22.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

GPXParinacota 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?

20 m low This 3D map reads 6,328 m at the summit; the official height is 6,348 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	6,348 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	6,328 m	-20 m
Copernicus GLO-90	6,335 m	-13 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 2026-09-22)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
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

Parinacota

From Road end, 4.7 km E of Parinacota

West → east through the summit

Nearest campsite

Data sources