List of glaciers in South America
Perito Moreno Glacier, Argentina as seen from space.
Glacier Lagoon, Bolivia.
Eastern Coromoto glacier, Venezuela.
Glaciers in South America develop exclusively on the Andes and are subject to the Andes various climatic regimes namely the Tropical Andes, Dry Andes and the Wet Andes. Apart from this there is a wide range of altitudes on which glaciers develop from 5000 m in the Altiplano mountains and volcanoes to reaching sealevel as tidewater glaciers from San Rafael Lagoon (45° S) and southwards. South America hosts two large ice fields, the Northern and Southern Patagonian Ice Fields, of which the second is the largest contiguous body of glaciers in extrapolar regions. By surface about 80% of South Americas glaciers lie in Chile.
List of glaciers
Argentina
- Perito Moreno Glacier
- Polish Glacier
- Southern Patagonian Ice Field - Argentina/Chile
- Upsala Glacier
- Spegazzini Glacier
- Mayo Glacier
- Onelli Glacier
- Torre Glacier
- Negro Glacier
- Frias Glacier
- Alerce Glacier
- Castaño Overo Glacier
- Manso Glacier
- Peulla Glacier
- Casa Pangue Glacier
- Río Blanco Glacier
- Ventisquero Negro
- Viedma Glacier
- Lagrimas Glacier
Bolivia
- Chacaltaya
- Glacier Lagoon
Chile
Main article: Glaciers of Chile
- Amalia Glacier
- Colonia Glacier
- Bernardo Glacier
- Brüggen Glacier or Pío XI Glacier
- Dickson Glacier
- Francia Glacier
- Garibaldi Glacier
- Grandes Ventisqueros
- Gran Campo Nevado
- Grey Glacier
- Holanda Glacier
- Italia Glacier
- Jorge Montt Glacier
- Juncal Norte Glacier
- Juncal Sur Glacier
- La Paloma Glacier
- Leones Glacier
- Los Perros Glacier
- Marinelli Glacier
- Nef Glacier
- Mocho-Choshuenco
- Northern Patagonian Ice Field
- O'Higgins Glacier
- Patagonian Ice Sheet
- Pingo Glacier
- Queulat Glacier
- Romanche Glacier
- San Francisco Glacier
- San Quintín Glacier
- San Rafael Glacier
- Serrano Glacier
- Soler Glacier
- Southern Patagonian Ice Field - Chile/Argentina
- Steffen Glacier
- Stoppani Glacier
- Tyndall Glacier or Geike Glacier
- Universidad Glacier
- Yelcho Glacier
Colombia
Ecuador
Peru
- Quelccaya Ice Cap
- Pastoruri Glacier
- Artesonraju Glacier
- Llaca Glacier
- Arhuey Glacier
- Veronica Glacier[1]
Venezuela
- Eastern Coromoto glacier
- Sievers glacier
- Pico Bolívar - three glaciers
- Timoncito glacier
- La Corona glacier
See also
References
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