Pico Bolívar

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Pico Bolívar <tr><td style="border-top:1px solid #999966; text-align: center;" colspan=2>Image:Bolívar usgs.jpg Southwestern face of Pico Bolívar</td></tr>
Elevation	4,981 metres (16,342 feet)
Location	Mérida, Mérida, Venezuela <tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">Range</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">Sierra Nevada, Andes</td></tr><tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">Prominence</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">3957 m Ranked 25th</td></tr><tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">Coordinates</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">8°35′N 71°2′W</td></tr><tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">First ascent</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">1935 by Enrique Bourgoin, H. Márquez Molina and Domingo Peña</td></tr>

Pico Bolívar

<tr><td style="border-top:1px solid #999966; text-align: center;" colspan=2>Image:Bolívar usgs.jpg
Southwestern face of Pico Bolívar</td></tr>

Elevation

4,981 metres (16,342 feet)

Location

Mérida, Mérida, Venezuela

<tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">Range</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">Sierra Nevada, Andes</td></tr><tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">Prominence</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">3957 m Ranked 25th</td></tr><tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">Coordinates</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">8°35′N 71°2′W</td></tr><tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">First ascent</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">1935 by Enrique Bourgoin, H. Márquez Molina and Domingo Peña</td></tr>

The Pico Bolívar is the highest mountain in Venezuela, at 4,981 meters. Located in Mérida State, its top is permanently covered with Névé snow and three small glaciers. It can be reached by means of the Mérida Cable Car, the highest cable car in the world, which departs from the homonimous city. Pico Bolívar is named after the revolutionary leader Simon Bolívar.

The Pico Bolívar is located on the mountain previously called La Columna, next to El León (4,743 m) and El Toro (4,695 m). The new name was suggested by Miguel Febres Cordero in 1925. It was officially renamed on December 30th, 1934.

[edit] Elevation

The 4,981 meter elevation is now the official height <ref>See [1]</ref>, and was confirmed by a 2006 GPS reading. An older figure, 5,007 meters, is still sometimes quoted.