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Ritacuba Blanco
- Prominence
- 3,645 m11,959 ft
- Isolation
- at least 200 km
- Tonight
- -6°CFog · Wind 7 km/h SE
Ritacuba Blanco is a 5,410 m (17,749 ft) mountain in the Cordillera Oriental, Boyacá Department, Colombia.
All facts
- Elevation
- 5,410 m · 17,749 ft
- Range
- Cordillera Oriental
- Region
- Boyacá Department, Colombia
- Protected area
- El Cocuy National Park
- Coordinates
- 6.4943° N, 72.2974° W
Ritacuba Blanco 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 18.6 × 18.6 km
Ritacuba Blanco 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.
Ritacuba Blanco elevation profile
West → east through the summit
Ritacuba Blanco weather
Tonight · Fog · -6°C (21°F) · Wind 7 km/h SE
Ritacuba Blanco forecast for the summit, about 5,410 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 2,871 m.
- Tonight-6°–7 km/h SEBase 9°
- Sat-6°3°5.1 mm14 km/h NBase 10 / 18°
- Sun-7°4°0.6 mm11 km/h EBase 8 / 19°
- Mon-7°1°4.3 mm6 km/h SEBase 8 / 17°
- Tue-4°1°25.0 mm4 km/h SBase 11 / 16°
- Wed-3°0°10.6 mm4 km/h EBase 12 / 15°
- Thu-5°0°28.0 mm4 km/h NBase 10 / 15°
- Fri-5°0°4.6 mm4 km/h EBase 10 / 16°
- Sat-7°0°2.6 mm5 km/h SEBase 8 / 15°
- Sun-8°0°2.4 mm6 km/h SEBase 8 / 16°
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.
Camping & parking near Ritacuba Blanco
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Ritacuba Blanco, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
Camping
Nearest hut
Cabañas el Nevado
Nearest parking
6.7 km WSW
All mapped places 6
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| CampingCampsite | 1.4 km NE |
| Cueva LargaCampsite | 1.6 km ESE |
| Campsite | 2.9 km SW |
| Cabañas el NevadoHut | 6.0 km WSW |
| Cabañas KanwaraHut | 6.7 km WSW |
| Parking | 6.7 km WSW |
Slope
Share of the 18.6 × 18.6 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.
- Steeper than 30°
- 31.6% of the 346 km² view
- Relief in view
- 2,466 m low point 2,871 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 9.3 km, measured from the Ritacuba Blanco summit.
Summit list 9
- 1Ritacuba Negro5,340 m 1.1 km NNW
- 2Picacho5,063 m 1.9 km S
- 3Ritacuba Norte5,180 m 2.1 km N
- 4San Pablín Norte5,112 m 4.9 km SSE
- 5Pico Blanco5,070 m 5.6 km SE
- 6San Pablin Sur5,290 m 6.0 km SSE
- 7El Castillo5,170 m 6.7 km SE
- 8Pico San Antonio5,070 m 7.1 km SE
- 9Concavito5,080 m 9.0 km S
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 9.3 km; 92 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Espeletia lopezii24
- Senecio niveoaureus14
- Senecio cocuyanus14
- Monticalia guicanensis11
- Phlegmariurus cocuyensis9
- Castilleja paramensis8
Where Ritacuba Blanco sits
- Range
- American Cordillera467Andes163Cordillera Oriental4
- Region
- Colombia25South America235
Nearby places
Ritacuba Blanco downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
73 m low This 3D map reads 5,337 m at the summit; the official height is 5,410 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 86 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 5,410 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 5,337 m | -73 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 5,324 m | -86 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 2025-01-14)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Camping & parking
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- 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