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Puracé

4,756 m15,604 ft

Prominence: 1,504 m4,933 ft
Isolation: 77 km
Tonight: -2°CPartly cloudy · Wind 12 km/h SE

Puracé is a 4,756 m (15,604 ft) volcano in the Cordillera Central, Cauca Department, Colombia.

All facts

Elevation: 4,756 m · 15,604 ft
Nearest higher peak: Nevado del Huila (5,364 m)
Range: Cordillera Central
Region: Cauca Department, Colombia
Spanish name: Volcán Puracé
Coordinates: 2.3093° N, 76.3949° W

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3D map

Puracé 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Puracé 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

Puracé elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Puracé weather

Tonight · Partly cloudy · -2°C (28°F) · Wind 12 km/h SE

Puracé forecast for the summit, about 4,756 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 3,092 m.

Tonight-2°–12 km/h SEBase 8°
Sat-3°6°3.7 mm14 km/h SEBase 7 / 16°
Sun-3°6°4.8 mm15 km/h SEBase 7 / 16°
Mon-2°5°7.9 mm9 km/h SEBase 8 / 15°
Tue-1°6°4.2 mm7 km/h NBase 9 / 16°
Wed-2°3°7.2 mm4 km/h EBase 8 / 13°
Thu0°3°20.1 mm3 km/h EBase 10 / 13°
Fri-1°2°10.5 mm5 km/h EBase 9 / 12°
Sat-1°5°5.7 mm8 km/h SEBase 9 / 15°
Sun-2°4°7.5 mm9 km/h SEBase 8 / 14°

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 Puracé

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

Nearest hut
Centro de recreación Pilimbalá
6.1 km N
Directions Map

All mapped places 1

Place	Distance
Centro de recreación PilimbaláHut	6.1 km N

Slope

Share of the 10 × 10 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.

Gentle, 0–15°

43.6%

Moderate, 15–30°

46.3%

Steep, 30–45°

9.6%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.5%

Steeper than 30°: 10.1% of the 100 km² view
Relief in view: 1,558 m low point 3,092 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 75.3%Bare rock / sparse 14.0%Trees 7.4%Shrubland 3.2%

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

Where it sits

Where Puracé sits

Ranked in 1

#3 Volcanoes in Colombia

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

CumbalPeak · 4,764 m224 km SW

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

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Print & wall

JPGPuracé satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-06-11.

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

106 m low This 3D map reads 4,650 m at the summit; the official height is 4,756 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 120 m.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	4,756 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	4,650 m	-106 m
Copernicus GLO-90	4,636 m	-120 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 2026-06-11)
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

Puracé

West → east through the summit

Nearest hut

Data sources