Jun 25 2025
🏔️ Overview The Wilhelmina Mountains (Dutch: Wilhelminagebergte) are a remote mountain range in the forested interior of Suriname, in northern South America. Located in Sipaliwini District, the range forms part of the ancient Guiana Shield and lies largely within the Central Suriname Nature Reserve, one of the largest protected tropical forest areas in the region. …
Jun 24 2025
🏔️ Overview The Mantiqueira Mountains, known in Portuguese as the Serra da Mantiqueira, form one of the most important mountain regions in southeastern Brazil. Extending through portions of Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro, the range contains some of the highest summits in the country, extensive remnants of Atlantic Forest, high-elevation grasslands, major …
Jun 24 2025
The Serra do Mar is one of Brazil’s most important mountain systems, forming a dramatic line of forested ridges and escarpments along the country’s Atlantic margin. Rather than a single continuous ridge, it is a complex series of mountains, massifs, steep escarpments, valleys, and elevated plateaus extending through southeastern and southern Brazil. Closely associated with …
Jun 24 2025
Cerro Paramillo 🏔️ Overview Cerro Paramillo is a prominent mountain in northwestern Colombia, rising within the rugged northern reaches of the Cordillera Occidental of the Andes. Located in Antioquia Department, the mountain forms part of the Nudo de Paramillo, or Paramillo Massif, an important highland region where Colombia’s Western Cordillera begins to branch toward the …
Jun 23 2025
🏔️ Overview The Cordillera Oriental, or Eastern Cordillera, is the easternmost of the three principal branches of the Colombian Andes. Stretching generally southwest to northeast through the heart of Colombia, it contains immense highland plateaus, deeply incised valleys, cloud forests, páramo wetlands, glacial landscapes, and some of the country’s most densely populated mountain regions. The …
Jun 12 2025
🏔️ Overview Torres del Paine is one of the most recognizable mountain landmarks in Patagonia. Rising above the valleys and glacial lakes of southern Chile, the three steep granite towers form the eastern side of the Cordillera Paine, a compact and exceptionally rugged mountain group protected within Torres del Paine National Park. The name Torres …
Jun 08 2025
Rising above turquoise lakes, windswept steppe, forests, and glaciers in southern Chile, the Cordillera Paine is one of Patagonia’s most recognizable mountain groups. Also commonly called the Paine Massif or Cordillera del Paine, it forms the dramatic centerpiece of Torres del Paine National Park in the Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica Region. The range is best …
Jun 08 2025
Rasac is a glacier-covered 6,000-meter peak in Peru’s spectacular Cordillera Huayhuash. Rising immediately west of the much larger Yerupajá massif, Rasac has a broad profile that can appear comparatively modest when viewed beside the highest mountains of the range. In reality, it is a serious high-altitude mountaineering objective with steep snow, ice, glacier travel, exposed …
Jun 08 2025
Yerupaja Chico 🏔️ Overview Yerupaja Chico, also spelled Yerupajá Chico and historically known as El Toro, is a spectacular glaciated mountain in Peru’s Cordillera Huayhuash, one of the most rugged sections of the Andes. The mountain rises immediately north of the much larger Yerupajá, the highest mountain in the Cordillera Huayhuash and the second-highest mountain …
Jun 05 2025
Jirishanca Jirishanca is one of the most striking and technically formidable mountains in the Peruvian Andes. Rising sharply from the northern part of the Cordillera Huayhuash, its steep rock walls, hanging glaciers, narrow ridges, and distinctive pointed summit have made it one of the range’s most recognizable peaks. The mountain reaches an elevation of 6,094 …
