Mount Fitz Roy
mountain, Argentina
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Los Glaciares National Park
- In Los Glaciares National Park
Mount Fitz Roy (11,073 feet [3,375 meters]) is the highest point in the park. Wildlife includes guanacos, chinchillas, pudu and guemal (two species of small deer), condors, and rheas. The park was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1981.
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Patagonian Andes
- In Andes Mountains: Physiography of the Southern Andes
…mountains exceed 10,000 feet (Mount Fitz Roy reaching 11,073 feet) north to latitude 46° S but average only 6,500–8,400 feet from latitude 46° to 41° S, except for Mount Tronador (11,453 feet). North of Lake Aluminé (Argentina) the axis of the cordillera shifts to the east up to a…
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