ACONCAGUA

äkōnkäˈgwä, 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 is nearby. See also Ojos del Salado.

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books on: Aconcagua  - 158 results

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Chile: Land and Society
Book by J. K. Wright, George McCutchen McBride; American Geographical Society, 1936
Subjects: Agriculture--Chile, Chile--Social Conditions, Farms--Chile, Land Tenure--Chile
...45 The Aconcagua Valley 45...9 Map of Chile from the Aconcagua Valley to the island of Chiloe, showing...Panquehue, looking north across the Aconcagua Valley facing 51 16...
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Chile, a Geographic Extravaganza
Book by Benjamín Subercaseaux, Angel Flores; Macmillan, 1943
Subjects: Chile--Description And Travel
...Conquest to a zone located between the Aconcagua Valley and Curico. Later on, when Santiago...a height comparable to that of the Aconcagua in the central region. Volcanoes are...this sea. It would be like cutting the Aconcagua in two and then peeping down into the...
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The Argentine Republic: Its Development and Progress
Book by Pierre Denis, Joseph McCabe; Charles Scribners Sons, 1922
Subjects: Agriculture--Argentina, Argentina--Description And Travel, Argentina--Economic Conditions--1918-
...of Tapi -- Santa Maria to the west of Aconcagua -- Cafayate Valley of Calchaqui...OF SANTA MARIA, NORTH-WEST OF MOUNT ACONCAGUA 70...the southern Cordillera, Mercedario, Aconcagua, and Tupungato. Below the small number...
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Chile: The Making of a Republic, 1830-1865: Politics and Ideas
Book by Simon Collier; Cambridge University Press, 2003
Subjects: Chile--Politics And Government--1824-1920
...intendancies), Coquimbo (1811), and Aconcagua, Colchagua, Maule, Valdivia, and Chiloe...Intendant of Valparaiso to his colleague in Aconcagua, sent in July 1846. We have news that...generally known in that Province of Aconcagua, he is a native of Colombia, tall of...
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Chile: The Legacy of Hispanic Capitalism
Book by Brian Loveman; Oxford University Press, 2001
Subjects: Chile--Economic Conditions, Chile--History, Chile--Social Conditions, Political Participation--Chile--History, Social Conflict--Chile--History
...America. In Argentina at the headwaters of the Aconcagua River, Mt. Aconcagua, the loftiest peak in the western hemisphere...weather makes pas- sage extremely difficult. Near Aconcagua, the pass at Los Patos (4,720 meters) served...
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journal articles on: Aconcagua  - 7 results

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Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950-1973
Journal article by Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt; Journal of Social History, Vol. 38, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950-1973 (Book)--Book reviews
...in rural life is set in Chiles fertile Aconcagua Valley where dynamics, according to the...First, before 1964 largescale holdings in Aconcagua depended on an almost completely male...1964-1970), changed work and family in Aconcagua. Part of a Cold War, U.S.-supported effort...
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Bound for Australia: Shipboard Reading in the Nineteenth Century
Journal article by Bill Bell; Journal of Australian Studies, 2001
Subjects: Australia--Emigration and immigration, Emigration and immigration--19th century, Reading--Social aspects
...among passengers. As one prospectus put it in 1879: The Aconcagua Times is undertaken at the request of our fellow-passengers...and printed for general circulation on arrival. (57) The Aconcagua Times, Ballantyne, Edinburgh, 1879, p 3. (58) Benedict Anderson...
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Chile, a Quarter of a Century on
Journal article by Manuel Riesco; New Left Review, Vol. a, 1999
Subjects: Right And Left (Political Science), Socialism
...which they have been such important actors. Chile is a remarkably narrow country, so narrow indeed that the majestic Mount Aconcagua (Argentina, 7,000 metres high) can be admired in plain view from Valparaisos Pacific beaches on a clear day. Nevertheless...
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Chile: The First Latin American Tiger
Journal article by Duncan Green; NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol. 28, 1994
Subjects: Latin America, Latin America--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--Latin America
...author asked: "How many macadamia nuts or mangoes can North Americans be expected to eat, even at lower prices?" In the Aconcagua Valley near Santiago, growers are hacking down hectares of kiwi-fruit trees because of a world glut. Chiles apple growers...
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The Privatization of Citizen Security in Latin America: From Elite Guards to Neighborhood Vigilantes
Journal article by Mark Ungar; Social Justice, Vol. 34, 2007
Subjects: Privatization (Business)--Social aspects, Privatization--Social aspects, Security management--Methods, Security services industry--Industry forecasts, Security services industry--Services
...with the Association of Private Security Agencies (Carvajal, 2007). Among those asked to work on his "anticrime plan" was Aconcagua S.A., a private agency headed in part by an intelligence official who worked in the Mendoza police headquarters between 1973...
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magazine articles on: Aconcagua  - 17 results

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Quincentenary
Magazine article by Judith Laikin Elkin; Report on the Americas, Vol. 25, 1992
Subjects: Latin America, Latin America--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--Latin America
...period. Six thousand meters up Mt. Aconcagua in southern Argentina a graffito proclaims...such as "You shitty Jew, you wont take Aconcagua away from us." Anti-Semitism flourishes...delusion about the Jews sequestering Mt. Aconcagua.) The pamphlet sells well in the streetcorner...
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Fighting Fit
Magazine article by Carolyn Fry; Geographical, Vol. 72, January 2000
Subjects: Explorers--Conduct of life, Hunt, Rikki--Conduct of life
...to succeed in his third attempt to reach the top of Mount Aconcagua. Hes a recent convert to climbing mountains; strangely it...the big one hes got a range of mountains in mind to climb. Aconcagua is part of this plan as it will give experience of climbing...
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Ain't No, Mountain High Enough: African American Team Attempts to Climb the World's Tallest Peaks
Magazine article by Patricia Jacobs; Black Enterprise, Vol. 33, October 2002
Subjects: African Americans, Mountaineers
...Seven Summits: Mounts Everest in Nepal, Aconcagua in Argentina, Denali or McKinley in Alaska...excitement--and the danger. During a climb to Aconcagua last February, Shobe, who met Boston...rewards. Recalling his first trip to Aconcagua, Boston says: "I was suffering from dysentery...
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Event of the Month
Magazine article; Geographical, Vol. 80, November 2008
Subjects: Actors--Conferences, meetings and seminars, Actors--Social aspects, Actresses--Conferences, meetings and seminars, Actresses--Social aspects, Blessed, Brian--Conferences, meetings and seminars, Blessed, Brian--Social aspects
...the planets most challenging ascents. Counting Mallory and Shackleton among his greatest heroes, Brian successfully climbed Aconcagua in Argentina and Kilimanjaro in Africa, while he has also attempted to reach the summit of Mount Everest three times, in the...
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ELLIOTT BOSTON III Climbs Seven Peaks
Magazine article; Ebony, Vol. 56, June 2001
Subjects: Boston, Elliott, III--Biography, Mountaineers--Biography
...tallest mountains. Since August, the stockbroker trainee has climbed two of the seven: Mount Elbrus in Russia and South Americas Aconcagua. He is scheduled to begin a three-week trek up Alaskas Mount McKinley in June. He also plans to conquer Tanzanias Mount Kilimanjaro...
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newspaper articles on: Aconcagua  - 63 results

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Tony's on a High in a Quest for Charity; Mountaineer Raising Cash for Heroes
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), October 10, 2009
Subjects: Altitude sickness, Charities, Fund raising, Mountain sickness
...January to attempt to reach the summit of Aconcagua in the Andes mountains of Argentina...his own people development consultancy, Aconcagua will be the highest peak he has scaled...without the use of his legs. The ascent of Aconcagua, which Tony will undertake as part of...
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Peak Performance; Ulsterman Scales the Heights of Endurance
Newspaper article by Jeanette Oldham; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), April 7, 2000
...team of eight young people to conquer Aconcagua in Argentina in aid of Whizz-Kidz which...seriously consider a mountain such as Aconcagua requires commitment. "It demands an...together, standing at 22,962ft on the top of Aconcagua, raising the Whizz-Kidz flag. "We couldnt...
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Health Zone: Jill Palmer's Medical Casebook - Height of Courage; LEUKAEMIA SUFFERER CLIMBS TERROR PEAK
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), February 1, 2001
...attempt to reach the summit of 23,000ft Aconcagua. The mountain, in the Andes on the...the real bone grows into it." Climbing Aconcagua is the latest in a long line of superhuman...Scotts next challenge will be to climb Aconcagua
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LIFESTYLE: Climbing Duo Take on Everest
Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), February 24, 2005
LIFESTYLE: Climbing Duo Take on Everest. Byline: SANDRA CHAPMAN THE Aconcagua is the highest peak in the beautiful Andes mountains. At 6,962 metres (22,963ft) it gives the climber a great sense of achievement...
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BARD IN THE SKY; Burns Supper Held 3,000ft Up Mountain
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), January 6, 2006
...at 23,000ft. Chris Dunlop will work up an appetite scaling Mount Aconcagua in Argentina. Hell then sit down to enjoy haggis, neeps and tatties...ELSE: Chris will toast the Bard at the top MIGHTY: 23,000ft Mount Aconcagua PAUL CHAPPELLS
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encyclopedia articles on: Aconcagua  - 9 results

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Aconcagua
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ACONCAGUA akonka gwa, 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 is nearby. See also Ojos del Salado . ____________________ Copyright...
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Ojos Del Salado
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Andean peaks. In 1956 a Chilean expedition reported its height to be 23,239 ft (7,083 m), thus making it greater than Aconcagua and therefore the tallest peak in the Western Hemisphere, but this report has been unconfirmed. ____________________ Copyright...
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Whymper, Edward
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...participated (1880) in the first ascent of Chimborazo (20,577 ft/6,272 m). He climbed other major Andean peaks, including Aconcagua and Tupungato. His best-known book is Scrambles amongst the Alps (1871, 6th ed. 1936). ____________________ Copyright...
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Uspallata Pass
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...army through the pass to fight the Spanish royalists in Chile. The Christ of the Andes statue stands in the pass. Mt. Aconcagua towers to the north. The pass is also known as Paso de la Cumbre Summit Pass and Paso Los Libertadores Liberators Pass...
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Mountain
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Hindu Kush, Himalayas, and other ranges. Among notable single peaks are Everest, K2 (Godwin-Austen), and Kanchenjunga in Asia; Aconcagua, Chimborazo, and Cotopaxi in South America; McKinley, Logan, and Popocatepetl in North America; Mont Blanc and Elbrus in Europe...
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