Cerro Pintor (Pinter Mountain; 4.180 m a.s.l.) in central Chile
The "Cerro Pintor" receives its name from its colors, like the strokes of a painter's brush on his canvas. The different alteration degrees give it the colors, which were folded by the tectonic activity that raised the Andes. In the back, the Cerro El Plomo (The Gray Mountain; 5.424 m a.s.l.) dominates the valley of Santiago, the Chilean capital. El Plomo, with its beautiful hanging glacier, is so imposing, that the Incas (south american natives) considered it sacred, and sacrificed a boy in its honor, founded in 1954 mummified in the permafrost at ~5.400 m a.s.l.
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- Exact location (-70.2478 W, -33.2833 S)
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Submitted on 13 February 2023
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Francisco Hevia Cruz (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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