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Aconcagua

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Aconcagua (äkōnkä`gwä), peak, 22,835 ft (6,960 m) high, Mendoza prov., W Argentina, in the Andes, near the Chilean border. It is the highest peak of the Western Hemisphere. The snowcapped Aconcagua was first scaled in 1897. Uspallata Pass Uspallata Pass (späyä`tä), c.
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 is nearby. See also Ojos del Salado Ojos del Salado (ō`hōs thĕl sälä`thō)
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I was assured that during one very dry and long summer, all the snow disappeared from Aconcagua, although it attains the prodigious height of 23,000 feet.
 
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