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Santa Cruz

6,259 m20,535 ft

Prominence: 1,507 m4,944 ft
Isolation: 16 km
Tonight: -9°CSnow · Wind 4 km/h W

Santa Cruz is a 6,259 m (20,535 ft) mountain in the Cordillera Blanca, Áncash Department, Peru.

All facts

Elevation: 6,259 m · 20,535 ft
Nearest higher peak: Huandoy (6,395 m)
Range: Cordillera Blanca
Region: Áncash Department, Peru
Protected area: Huascarán National Park
Coordinates: 8.8943° S, 77.7093° W

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3D map

Santa Cruz 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Santa Cruz 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

Santa Cruz elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Santa Cruz weather

Tonight · Snow · -9°C (16°F) · 5.4 mm · Wind 4 km/h W

Santa Cruz forecast for the summit, about 6,259 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 3,834 m.

Tonight-9°5.4 mm4 km/h WBase 6°
Sat-9°-3°11.7 mm11 km/h NEBase 6 / 11°
Sun-9°-4°15.0 mm9 km/h NWBase 5 / 11°
Mon-12°-2°0.8 mm10 km/h WBase 2 / 13°
Tue-11°-2°0.4 mm12 km/h WBase 3 / 12°
Wed-13°-2°–13 km/h WBase 2 / 13°
Thu-11°-3°0.2 mm11 km/h WBase 3 / 12°
Fri-13°-2°–12 km/h WBase 2 / 13°
Sat-13°-1°0.1 mm11 km/h WBase 2 / 14°
Sun-9°-3°6.4 mm4 km/h NWBase 5 / 11°

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

Camping & parking near Santa Cruz

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

Nearest campsite
Base Camp Alpamayo North
4.7 km NE · +2 more within 5.8 km
Directions Map

All mapped places 3

Place	Distance
Base Camp Alpamayo NorthCampsite	4.7 km NE
Campamento JomandaCampsite	5.8 km S
Campamento LlamacorralCampsite	5.8 km S

Slope

Share of the 10 × 10 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°

38.6%

Steep, 30–45°

39.9%

Cliffs, 45° and over

10.3%

Steeper than 30°: 50.2% of the 100 km² view
Relief in view: 2,227 m low point 3,834 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Bare rock / sparse 38.6%Grassland 33.0%Snow & ice 24.7%Water 2.5%Shrubland 0.7%

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

Where it sits

Where Santa Cruz sits

Nearby

Nearby places

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Print & wall

JPGSanta Cruz satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-08-07.

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GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

198 m low This 3D map reads 6,061 m at the summit; the official height is 6,259 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 207 m.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	6,259 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	6,061 m	-198 m
Copernicus GLO-90	6,052 m	-207 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 2026-08-07)
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 · Wikipedia

Santa Cruz

West → east through the summit

Nearest campsite

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