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".... After a night of extreme cold and dense fog, we wake up the following day of the camp beside the "Laguna Timoncito" with the surprise of a clear sky, and with the frozen lagoon, the spectacular glaciers and the grottos of the blued glaciers, never imagine to observe these landscapes in a tropical earth as Venezuela." ............... Karl Weidmann

The Andes, located in the south-west of Venezuela, it constitutes the final tract of the longest Mountain range in the world with more than 8.000 km. Here they are the highest mountains in Venezuela, being the highest the Pick Bolívar (5.007 m./16.230 ft.)

The glaciers in the Venezuelan Andes have gone diminishing gradually, the mountains that harbor glaciers are the Pick Bolívar (5.007 m./16.230 ft), Pick Humboldt (4.942 m./16.214 ft.), Pico La Concha (Pick The Shell) (4.922 m/16.150 ft.),Pick Bompland (4.882 m./16.017 ft.) At the moment they are some glaciers, being the most important, El Espejo (The Mirror), Sievers, Timoncito, Codazzi, Big "Cañada",El Encierro (The Confinement), The Bolívar.


Those "Paramo" (The Moor) they are located to more than 3.000 m (9.842 ft). In this atmosphere of cold temperature, icy night and day, high humidity and topography of the inclined hillsides whose it limits toward the heights they are the glaciers and snow of the rocky summits and down the cloudy forest, it is alone in the Venezuelan, Colombian and Ecuadorian Andes. In times of July-September it is rotted to observe these completely snowy landscapes, with towns and valleys to the margin of the snow.


The Venezuelan Andes also harbors so much monuments of great importance for Venezuela as well as for the world. It shows of this we have the Astronomical Observatory to more altitude in America (located 3.800 m./12.467 ft.), also the longest and high cable car in the world (from 1.516 m/4.973 ft.. up to 4.800 m/15.750 ft.., of long more than 12,5 km.), the highest statue in Latin America "La Virgen de la Paz/"The Virgin of The Peace" (more than 47 m/154 ft.. And it overcomes to the "Liberty Statue (without the pedestal) in height), and ruins of towns and you dam.

* Climate: The climate in you walk them it varies according to the height, according to five thermal floors:

a) Area of Hot lands: Located from the 0 m. (0 ft.) until the 1000 m. (3.280 ft.), the temperature is inferior of 27°C (80,2°F)

b) Temperate Area: Located from the 1.000 m. (3.280 ft.) until the 2.800 m. (9.186 ft), the temperature is of 12°C (53,6°F) at 20°C (68°F)

c) Cold Area: Located from the 2.800 m (9.186 ft.) until the 3.800 m. (12.467 ft.), the temperature is of 5°C (41°f) at 11°C (51,8°F)

d) Area of Moor: Located from the 3.800 m. (12.467 ft.) until the 4700 m. (15.420 ft), the temperature is of -3°C (26,6°F) up to 5°C (41°F)

e) Area Glacier: Located to a superior height to 4.700 m. (15.420 ft.), the temperature is inferior at the -3°C (26,6°F)

The Venezuelan Andes is divided in 3 brunches, and they are:

* Sierra Nevada de Merida (Snowfall Mountains of Merida): it is the most narrow, but it presents those but gigantic altitudes of Venezuela, has an average of height of 4.700 m. (15.420 ft.)

* Sierra La Culata (The Breech Mountains): this located to the northwest of Snowfall Mountains of Merida, it skirts it the depression of the Lake of Maracaibo, it harbors an uniform and even, but also inclined relief. The half altitude is of 4.300 m.

* Cordillera de Perija (Mountain range of Perija): (TO SEE IN "THE OCCIDENT")

Apart from those "regions" of the brunches, they are also:

* La Depresion del Tachira (The Depression of the Tachira): It is where the Mountain range Andean Venezuelan, its relief begins it is irregular, the alluvial terraces, hills and picks prevail. The Depression of the Tachira, it has been one of the areas of more agricultural development in the economic process of the Andean region, in which the cultivations of coffee stand out and of cane of sugar, as well as other industries.

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OBSERVATORY (ONE OF THE MOST HIGH IN THE WORLD -3.800 MTRS-)


TRANSANDINE RUNAWAY





PEAK BONPLAND GLACIER



MERIDA CITY FROM THE CABLECAR

MERIDA CITY, THE CULATA MOUNTAINS (4.200 MTRS . PROM)


CULATA MOUNTAINS


BOLIVAR PEAK (5.007 M)

SNOWFALL MOUNTAINS OF MERIDA (SIERRA NEVADA DE MERIDA)

MUCUBAJI LAGOON
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MUCUÑUQUE PEAK

ORIGIN VALLEY GLACIAR



HIGHWAY TO MERIDA (IN THE MUCUCHIES MOOR)


CULATA MOUNTAINS

GLACIER HUMBOLDT

SOUTH OF HUMBOLDT PEAK

GREEN LAGOON (LAGUNA VERDE)

TIMONCITO GLACIER

BOLIVAR AND THE CABLE CAR MOST HIGH AND LARGE IN THE WORLD

LAGUNA TIMONCITO

GLACIER CAVERN IN BOLIVAR PEAK

CABLE CAR AND THE LAST STATION MIRROR PEAK (PICO ESPEJO)





SNOW VIRGIN IN MIRROR PEAK (4768 METER)



GLACIER HUMBOLDT





GLACIER BOLIVAR

GLACIER LA CONCHA

GLACIER TIMONCITO

OTHER GLACIERS



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SNOW AND GLACIER OF VENEZUELA!!! THANKS!!

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Joya

I like snow a lot, it gives me a warm feeling. But it has not even snowed yet here in the western Turkey

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Gabo

I like the Ararat mountain in Turkey!!!

Is rare that don't rain (snow) in the western of turkey!

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