Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Map

Map of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

Pico Cristóbal Colón Region

Pico Cristóbal Colón, known as Gonawindua in the indigenous Kogi language, is the second highest mountain in Colombia, with a reported height of 5,712.8 metres (18,743 ft).^[1] It is 7.6 metres lower than Colombia’s highest mountain, Pico Simón Bolívar. There is a permanent snowcap on this peak and on the nearby mountains. It is part of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta range, along with Pico Simón Bolívar, and was named after Christopher Columbus.

Climbing history

Colón was first climbed in 1939 by Walter Wood, Anderson Bakerwell and E. Praolini.^[2]

Access to these mountains became very difficult after the early 1990s due to hostile locals, drug traffickers and FARC guerillas. An expedition in 2015 led by John Biggar was one of the first to climb in the range for many years, and reached the summit of Pico Colón on 13 December.^[3]

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Pico Simón Bolívar is the highest mountain in Colombia, with a height of 5,720.4 metres (18,768 ft).^[1] Pico Bolívar and the neighbouring summit of Pico Cristóbal Colón are the two highest peaks in Colombia and are very nearly equal in elevation. The difference in elevation is 8 metres. It is therefore the fifth most prominent in the world (see list of peaks by prominence). The nearest peak that is higher is Cayambe, some 1,288 kilometres (800 mi) away. There is a permanent snowcap on this peak and on the nearby mountains. It is part of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta range, along with Pico Cristóbal Colón. The peak is named after Simón Bolívar.

Climbing history

Pico Simón Bolívar was first climbed in 1939 by W. Wood, A. Bakerwell and E. Praolini.^[2]

Access to these mountains became very difficult after the early 1990s due to hostile locals, drug traffickers, and FARC guerillas. An expedition in 2015 was one of the first to climb in the range for many years, reaching the summit of Pico Cristóbal Colón.^[3]

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Pico Simón Bolívar, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 International License (view authors).