{{Short description|Mountain in Chile}} {{Distinguish|Nevado del Plomo}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Cerro El Plomo | image = Cerro_del_Plomo_from_the_south-west.jpeg | image_caption = The glaciated south-west face, visible from Santiago, with Cerro Leonera to the left | elevation_m = 5444 | elevation_ref = | prominence_m = 936 | prominence_ref = | listing = | location = Chile | range = Andes | map = Chile | range_coordinates = | coordinates = {{coord|33|13|58|S|70|12|44|W|type:mountain_region:CL_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_ref = | first_ascent = | easiest_route = }} '''Cerro El Plomo''' is a mountain in the Andes near Santiago, Chile. With an elevation of {{convert|5444|m|ft}}, it is the highest peak visible from Santiago on clear days. Climbing the mountain is popular during the local summer, between November and March. In spring (September to November), soil conditions have abundant snow on the approach. The most favorable season for climbing is typically from January to March, when the approach is largely snow-free and the climate is more stable. The Incas are known to have climbed to its summit periodically in the 15th century. The first European ascent of the mountain was by Gustav Brandt and Rudolph Lucke in 1896.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dav.cl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1224&Itemid=580 |title=Report about the first modern ascent, with a picture of Brandt |access-date=2010-03-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100313004528/http://www.dav.cl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1224&Itemid=580 |archive-date=2010-03-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
During a flight from Santiago, Chile, to Mendoza, Argentina, on 16 July 1932, the Pan American-Grace Airways (Panagra) Ford Trimotor ''San José'' crashed on Cerro El Plomo during a severe snowstorm, killing all nine people on board. Buried in ice and snow, its wreckage remained undiscovered until March 1934.<ref>[http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19320716-0 Aviation safety Network: Accident Description]</ref>
[[File:Pirca del Inca at Cerro del Plomo.jpeg|thumb|left|250px|The site where the mummy was found]]
==Plomo Mummy== {{main|Plomo Mummy}} The mountain was used as a ceremonial site by the Incas. The mountain made headlines in 1954 when a mummy of an approximately nine-year-old child was found on the summit.<ref name=unesco>{{cite web |title=Cerro El Plomo high shrine |work=Entry on the UNESCO Tentative List |url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/1194/ |accessdate=2008-07-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Clark |first=Liesl |date=November 24, 1998 |title=Ice Mummies of the Inca |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/peru/mummies/high2.html |accessdate=November 19, 2014}}</ref> The mummy resides in the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural in Santiago, Chile.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bioantropológicas|url=http://www.dibam.cl/historia_natural/contenido.asp?id_contenido=315|accessdate=2008-11-11|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716153501/http://www.dibam.cl/historia_natural/contenido.asp?id_contenido=315|archivedate=2011-07-16}}</ref> thumb|413x413px|El Plomo mountain, in Central Chile, seen from the south
==Gallery== <gallery> File:Cerro_del_Plomo_route.jpeg|Normal route from the Piedra Numerada base camp. File:El Plomo 1.jpg File:El Plomo 2.jpg File:El Plomo and Leonera.jpg File:Cerro El Plomo.jpg|Cerro El Plomo from Apoquindo Ave., partially occluded by Cerro Leonera. </gallery>
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20180113203011/https://tralov.com/en/activities/trekking-cerro-el-plomo Description of Cerro El Plomo expedition route] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20140910080615/http://www.wikiexplora.com/index.php/Cerro_el_Plomo Description of the ascent route to El Plomo in Wikiexplora] *[http://www.andeshandbook.org/montanismo/cerro/18/Plomo Andeshandbook: complete description, history, place name and routes of Cerro Plomo]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Plomo, Cerro El}} Category:Mountains of Santiago Metropolitan Region Category:Five-thousanders of the Andes
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