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Mountain · Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta · Magdalena Department

Pico Cristóbal Colón

5,775 m18,947 ft

Mapped trail: 4.9 km+971 m · about 3 hEnds 2,180 m below the summit.
Prominence: 5,509 m18,074 ft
Isolation: at least 200 km
Tonight: -7°CSnow · Wind 6 km/h N

Pico Cristóbal Colón is a 5,775 m (18,947 ft) mountain in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Magdalena Department, Colombia.

All facts

Elevation: 5,775 m · 18,947 ft
Range: Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
Region: Magdalena Department, Colombia
Protected area: Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta National Park
Coordinates: 10.8388° N, 73.6860° W

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Route

Trails toward Pico Cristóbal Colón

Mapped trails from the road get to 2,180 m below the summit, typically a pass, lake or camp. The top itself is a mountaineering climb with no mapped route.

From Asentamiento Kogui (hamlet)

Distance: 4.9 kmone way
Climb: +971 m−50 m (3,186 ft up)
Time up: about 3 h
Difficulty: Grade not mapped

Pico Cristóbal Colón elevation profile

Ends 2,180 m below the summit.

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Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.

3D map

Pico Cristóbal Colón 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Pico Cristóbal Colón terrain and contours

200 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one, from Asentamiento Kogui. 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

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Weather

Pico Cristóbal Colón weather

Tonight · Snow · -7°C (19°F) · 1.0 mm · Wind 6 km/h N

Pico Cristóbal Colón forecast for the summit, about 5,775 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 2,599 m.

Tonight-7°1.0 mm6 km/h NBase 13°
Sat-8°-1°14.6 mm9 km/h NWBase 11 / 17°
Sun-8°-1°11.2 mm10 km/h SWBase 13 / 18°
Mon-6°-3°7.0 mm6 km/h SBase 13 / 15°
Tue-7°-3°6.4 mm10 km/h SWBase 13 / 15°
Wed-8°-3°4.1 mm5 km/h NWBase 12 / 17°
Thu-7°-3°17.7 mm2 km/h NBase 13 / 16°
Fri-9°-3°6.2 mm5 km/h NEBase 11 / 16°
Sat-7°-4°18.1 mm3 km/h WBase 14 / 16°
Sun-7°-4°16.2 mm5 km/h NWBase 13 / 15°

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

How steep is the route to Pico Cristóbal Colón?

The easiest mapped route, 4.9 km from 2,599 m to 3,520 m. Steepest stretch: 30°.

0 km · 2,599 m4.9 km · 3,520 m

0–15°3.6 km
15–30°1.3 km
30–45°0.1 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.

Bare rock / sparse 50.5%Grassland 38.0%Trees 5.4%Water 2.8%Snow & ice 2.2%Shrubland 1.1%

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

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 10 km, measured from the Pico Cristóbal Colón summit.

Summit list 9

1Pico Simón Bolívar5,775 m 0.7 km SW
2Pico Santander5,572 m 1.0 km SSW
3Pico Simmonds5,594 m 2.2 km W
4Pico Wilches5,170 m 3.4 km NW
5Pico Menders5,115 m 4.5 km NW
6Ruiz Erazo5,152 m 5.2 km W
7Pico Ojeda5,295 m 6.5 km E
8Pico La Reina5,510 m 8.1 km ESE
9Pico Codazzi5,175 m 9.5 km E

Where it sits

Where Pico Cristóbal Colón sits

Ranked in 1

#12 Country high points

Nearby

Nearby places

Downloads

Pico Cristóbal Colón downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGPico Cristóbal Colón satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2025-01-27.

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GIS & GPS

GPXPico Cristóbal Colón 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?

77 m low This 3D map reads 5,698 m at the summit; the official height is 5,775 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 121 m.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	5,775 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	5,698 m	-77 m
Copernicus GLO-90	5,654 m	-121 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 2025 (scene 2025-01-27)
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