About the Cordillera Blanca
The Cordillera Blanca "The White Mountain Range", is located in the Peruvian Andes, it is the highest tropical mountain range in the planet, place where is found Huascaran mount (6768m / 22 205 ft), the highest tropical mountain in the world; Alpamayo (5947m / 19 511ft, the most beautiful mountain in the world.
This mountain range stretches 180 Km with a direction from Nor west - South , reaching in its wider side 28 km; in Cordillera Blanca we can find dozens of peaks that overcome the 6000m / 19 685 ft and other dozens of snowed peaks overcome 5700m / 18 701ft, among the most known peaks are:
Huascaran (6768m / 22 205ft)
Alpamayo (5947m / 19 511ft)
Huandoy and its four peaks (6395 / 20981 ft, 6356m / 20 853 ft, 6166m / 20230 ft and 6070m / 19914 ft)
Chacraraju and its two peaks (6112m / 20 052 ft and 6001m / 9688 )
Artesonraju (6025m / 19 767 m)
Taulliraju (5850m / 19 193ft)
All these mountains mentioned can be seen making the Santa Cruz - Llanganuco trekking tour.
In the central part of the Cordillera Blanca we can find mounts such as:
Taulliraju (6034m /19 797 ft)
Chinchey (6222m / 20 413 ft)
Palcaraju (6274m / 20 583 ft)
Cayesh (5721m / 18 769 ft)
Huantsán (6395m / 20 981 ft)
The existence of snow covered peaks origin rivers and streams that water the valleys known as Callejon de Huaylas and Callejon de Conchucos, located in the West and East side of the mountain range respectively.
The Cordillera Blanca has a great biodiversity, among them have been registered 112 species of birds among residents and migratories, also have been recorded 779 of plants that belong to 104 families and 304 genus, without doubt the Cordillera Blanca is synonym of beauty.
