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	Cordillera Blanca and Huayhuash of Peru, trekking. Andes Mountain Expediciones;
		Trekking at the Cordillera Blanca and Huayhuash, Peru.
		The "Cordillera Blanca" mountain range of Peru is one of the most interesting sites of the world for trekking.
		In our 10 or 16 days traverse across the backbone of the Cordillera Blanca or Huayhuash, enjoying sunny days with shirt-sleeve weather, pass by cultivated farm-lands and colorful villages, in fantastic mountain scenery is a sublime Andean experience.
	www.andesmountain.cl /perutrekking/trekking_peru_ing.html (112 words)

	Trekking the Cordillera Blanca
		Blanca (white) refers to the large, permanent glaciers in the range, while Negra (fl) is snowless exposed rock (Cordillera means mountain range).
		Of all the possible trekking destinations in this country, Cordillera Blanca is the real treat, with a varied, dramatic landscape and only a small number of visitors each year.
		The people that live on the periphery of the Cordillera Blanca seldom see outsiders, rarely get to what we'd call a town, and will be as curious about you as you are about them.
	www.bythom.com /Cordillera.htm (3179 words)

	USGS P 1386-I -- Peru - Cordilleras - Occidental
		The Cordillera Blanca is the most extensive tropical ice-covered mountain range in the world and has the major ice concentration in Perú.
		The Cordillera de Chonta consists of a series of ice-capped peaks extending in a northerly direction for about 50 km between lat 12°37' and 13°07'S. and long 75°00' and 75°30'W. and is in the western branch of the Andes (fig.
		The Cordillera de Huanzo is a glacierized mountain range within the Cordillera Occidental that extends 57 km in a northwesterly direction between lat 14°30' and 15°01'S. and long 72°50' and 73°15'W. (fig.
	pubs.usgs.gov /prof/p1386i/peru/occident.html (1636 words)

	Cordillera Blanca of Perú, mountaineering. Andes Mountain Expediciones ;
		Cordillera Blanca located at 400 km north of Lima.
		It is the highest tropical mountain chain in the Earth, it has more than 700 glaciers, and more than 267 lagoons of impressive colors, where also small forests abound at levels of 4,000 meters of height.
		Ice faces and knife-edge ridges of the mountains of the Cordillera Blanca of Peru make them among the most spectacular in the world.
	www.andesmountain.cl /perumontana/blanca_ing.html (113 words)

	Cordillera Blanca : Introduction \| Frommers.com
		Rugged Peru is synonymous with the bold peaks of the Andes, and those mountains, particularly the spectacular Cordillera Blanca range 400km (250 miles) northeast of Lima, are a magnet for thousands of mountaineers and adventure-sports travelers every year.
		The string of dramatic snowcapped 5,000m (16,400-ft.) peaks east of the Callejón de Huaylas Valley, accessible from the main tourist hub of Huaraz (reached by bus in 7-8 hr.
		--The Cordillera Blanca's El Huascarán, the namesake of the mountainous National Park in Peru's central Andes, might seem to be a macho mountain: At 6,768m (22,199 ft.), it's the highest peak in Peru, the fourth highest in the Americas, and the highest tropical-zone mountain in the world.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/cordillerablanca/2888010001.html (816 words)

	Cordillera Blanca
		The Cordillera Blanca is located between 08° 30' - 10° 10' S, 77° 00' - 78° 00' W, in the Andean Department of Ancash, Peru, 400 km north of Lima.
		The Cordillera Blanca covers an area 180 km long and 30 km wide in the Andean Department of Ancash, Peru.
		Ice and snow-capped Cordillera Blanca stretches over 180 km between Cordillera Negra (lower left) and the amazonian foothills (upper rigth).
	www.grid.unep.ch /activities/global_change/cordillera.php (616 words)

	Huaraz, Peru adventure travel and tourism
		Established in 1975, the Parque Nacional Huascarán contains all the Cordillera Blanca (with the exception of the distant Nevado Champará in its extreme north), the highest range of the Peruvian Andes and the highest range in the world's tropical zone.
		The Cordillera Blanca is without questions one of the most magnificent mountain ranges in the world.
		The Cordillera Blanca, the Parque Nacional Huascarán, is truly a treasure of the natural heritage of Peru and the entire world, a great living outdoor museum, and the goal every year of thousands of mountain climbers, scientists, and other wilderness lovers from all around the globe.
	www.peru-explorer.com /huscara.htm (2901 words)

	Cordillera Blanca Ski Expedition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Join MountainZone.com as we follow five skiers on a ski mountaineering expedition in the rugged Cordillera Blanca Mountains of Peru.
		The Cordillera Blanca range is just 12 miles wide and 112 miles long, but it hosts more than 50 peaks higher than 18,500 feet.
		Besides the sheer magnitude of the compact range, the Cordillera Blanca maintains a history that is unrivaled.
	classic.mountainzone.com /ski/2000/cordillera/index.html (289 words)

	Huaraz and the Cordillera Blanca, Peru
		Trekkers who make it over Punta Unión, a pass at 4,750 meters in the Cordillera Blanca, rub their eyes in disbelief when they first see Alpamayo.
		Cordillera Huayhuash: Spend two weeks circumnavigating this stunning range, with some of the finest mountain scenery on earth.
		Cordillera Negra: This often-overlooked range, just west of the Cordillera Blanca, offers challenging mountain-bike routes with panoramas of glaciers and snow peaks.
	www.moon.com /planner/peru/regions/huaraz.html (269 words)

	USGS P 1386-I -- Peru - Intro
		The largest system, which is in the central northern part of Perú in the Cordillera Blanca, extends along a distance of 200 kilometers; it has a total glacierized area of 723.4 square kilometers.
		In the Río Santa valley, adjacent to the Cordillera Blanca, for example, 22 such catastrophes of glaciological origin have taken place since 1702 and have caused the destruction of towns, villages, and croplands and have killed tens of thousands of inhabitants.
		--Principal cordilleras of the Andes Mountains in Perú.
	pubs.usgs.gov /prof/p1386i/peru/intro.html (691 words)

	Cordillera Blanca, Peru, South America
		The Santa Cruz Trek is the most popular trek of the Cordillera Blanca range, which is the highest tropical mountain range in the world, reaching 22,205 feet at the top of Huascaran.
		As a long day trip from Huaraz, we rode a bus over a scenic 15,000-foot pass to visit the ancient ruins of Chavín de Huántar, located at 10,300 feet elevation at the bottom of Cordillera Blanca’s eastern slopes halfway between the Amazon forest and coastal plains, in the Department of Ancash in Peru.
		The farming city of Chavin became populous by controlling important trade routes which crossed from coast to interior and from north-to-south along the cordillera.
	www.photoseek.com /peru/CordilleraBlanca.html (1234 words)

	A guide to mountain climbing in Peru
		Without a doubt the best place for mountaineering in Peru is the spectacular Cordillera Blanca which is accessed from the town of Huaraz.
		The more remote Cordillera Huayhuash is 4 hours by bus from Huaraz and has 7 summits over 6,000m, the highest of which is Yerupaja at 6,634m.
		In the Cusco district, ascents on the mountains of Salkantay (6,271m) and Ausangate (6,384m), in the Cordilleras Vilcabamba and Vilcanota respectively, are made by a few groups each year.
	www.andeantravelweb.com /peru/adventure/mountainclimbing.html (1138 words)

	Cordillera Blanca Hiking - Climbing, Huayhuash,Inka Trail, Cusco, Arequipa, Puno, Choquequirao
		Cordillera Blanca Hiking - Climbing, Huayhuash,Inka Trail, Cusco, Arequipa, Puno, Choquequirao
		Huaraz is Located in the North site of Lima City to 400 KM of distance, Huaraz is the Capital of Ancash Department at (3100masl) and has an area of 35,029 KM2 and 150,421 inhabitants,there you can visit some atractives turistics such as: Chavin de Huantar ruins, Llanganuco Lake, Pastoruri glacier, 69 Lake, etc
		The Department of Puno is Located in the South Estern region of the Country at (3827masl),it has an area of 72.382 KM2 and has 1,245,508 of habitants; there you can visit some floating Islands such as: Amantani, Taquile, Uros, etc.
	www.cordillerablancahiking.com (194 words)

	Colonia Climb - Trekking, Climbing, Alpamayo, Huascaran, South America, Ancash, Peru, Cusco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The cordillera Blanca features Huascaran national Park which is at the same time the heart of the Huascaran Biosphere reserve and which UNESCO in December 1985 officially declared Natural Heritage of Mankind to protect the world’s natural and cultural Heritage.
		Huascaran National park spreads across 34000 hectares between 2800 to 6768 meters (9184 to 22202 ft) in altitude and occupies approximately 9% of the Ancash department.
		The park was created the on July1st 1975 it covers almost the entire Cordillera Blanca the highest mountain range in peru an the world’s highest tropical zone.
	www.coloniaclimb.com /english/cordillerablanca.php (225 words)

	Cordillera Blanca Maps
		As the Cordillera Blanca Sud map was so out of date we also got the two IGM maps that cover more or less the same area: 19-i Huari and 20-i Recuay.
		This is a colour sketch map of the whole range including the Cordillera Huayhuash and shows all the major peaks with their heights and a good indication of the glacier coverage.
		Another surprisingly useful source of maps was a small tourist booklet provided by the local tourist office in Huaraz which includes non-colour sketch maps of Peru, Ancash (the region that includes the C. Blanca) and of the mountains themselves.
	www.focussoftware.co.uk /peru03/cordillera_blanca_maps.htm (323 words)

	Trekking in the Cordillera Blanca Peru
		The mountains of Peru's Cordillera Blanca are enormously scenic, a glacial wilderness of translucent turquoise lakes, hidden waterfalls, and dazzling ice-fluted mountain peaks.
		Drive along the Pan American Highway to Huaraz (10,200'), a center for exploring the Cordillera Blanca.
		Days 4-11 - On trek through the remote Cordillera Blanca, crossing seven more passes (five of them over 15,000' and the highest at 15,908'), and passing small farming settlements where you'll have a chance to meet the locals.
	www.mtsobek.com /cgi-bin/trip.py?tripID=BLA (384 words)

	Cordillera Blanca Adventures, Huaraz - PERU (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.flux.utah.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The Cordillera Blanca, in the heart of the tropical Andes is Peru’s showpiece, a wonderland of ice-encrusted peaks glistening against the bright blue sky.
		The Cordillera Blanca runs parallel to the Cordillera Negra, forming the impressive Callejón de Huaylas Valley.
		In the picturesque villages below the magnificent mountainscapes of the Cordillera Blanca and the Cordillera Huayhuash, we interact with friendly Quechua people sharing their cultural insights and traditions.
	www.cordillerablanca.org.cob-web.org:8888 (373 words)

	Cordillera Blanca Huayhuash Peruvian Andes Peru Callejon de Huaylas
		Cordillera Blanca Huayhuash Peruvian Andes Peru Callejon de Huaylas
		You've heard about Huaraz and the Cordillera Blanca and Huayhuash from other travelers on the road and you've decided it's worth checking out.
		A tip - from the pass, scramble up the hill to the south for a few minutes and you'll be rewarded with some of the most spectacular views in the Cordillera Blanca.
	www.andeanexplorer.com (624 words)

	Peru: Cordillera Blanca + Huascaran (6786m). Climbing, mountaineering and trekking expeditions, adventure holidays and ...
		On the west side of the Cordillera Blanca the Rio Santa drains into the Pacific, while on the east side the Río Maranon drains into the Atlantic.
		As the range is quite narrow all the climbing and hiking areas are easily accessed from roads.
		There is a huge range of climbs available in the Cordillera Blanca, to cater for all tastes, whether you are a complete beginner looking for an introduction to mountaineering or an experienced climber in search of new challenges.
	www.santacruzexpeditions.com /mountain2.htm (201 words)

	Andes Running Adventures - Blanca & Huayhuash High Mountain Challenge 150 Mile Multi-Stage Adventure Run
		The first portion of the trip will be running a 40 mile multi-day circuit in Cordillera Blanca, the highest tropical mountain range in the world.
		After a night of rest in Huaraz, we depart to the town of Chiquian to run a 100 mile multi-day circuit of the Cordillera Huayhuash.
		"Cordilleras Blanca and Huayhuash Adventure Run" By Stu Sherman.
	www.andesadventures.com /run1sum.htm (463 words)

	Cordillera Blanca, Peru
		The snowcapped peaks of the Cordillera Blanca are among the highest on the planet.
		Outside of Asia's Himalayas, the Cordillera Blanca is the highest mountain range in the world.
		Unauthorized duplication in part or whole without prior written consent prohibited by law.
	www.planetware.com /peru/cordillera-blanca-per-an-cb.htm (140 words)

	Cordillera Blanca (White Range)
		The Cordillera Blanca is a mountain range in Peru.
		The highest mountain in Peru, Huascaran (6768 m), is located here.
		Huascaran National Park, established in 1975, encompasses almost the entire range of the Cordillera Blanca.
	www.virtualperu.net /sierra_cordillerablanca.html (87 words)

	About Us - Peaks & Places
		Peaks and Places Travel is the expert on trekking and climbing in the Cordillera Blanca, Cordillera Huayhuash, Cordillera Vilcanota, and Cordillera Vilcabamba mountain ranges of Peru.
		Brad authored and self-published the book Classic Climbs of the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, considered by many climbers to be the best climbing guide book to the Cordillera Blanca mountains of Peru.
		Co-authored and published the New 2004, 1:50,000 Topographical Map to the Cordillera Huayhuash.
	peaksandplaces.com /about.htm (441 words)

	Peru Holidays: Cordillera Blanca Trek - Peru
		Protected as the Huascaran National Park, the Cordillera is one of the earth's treasured natural resources and the highest mountain chain in the Peruvian Andes.
		Hundreds of multicoloured glacial lakes and dozens of crystal clear rivers and waterfalls make it one of the most attractive mountain destinations on earth.
		This will be our first full view of the magnificent Cordillera Blanca.
	www.condorjourneys-adventures.com /peru_blanca.asp (953 words)

	Cordillera Blanca Huayhuash Peruvian Andes Peru (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.flux.utah.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		National Park Huascarán, Cordilleras: Blanca, Negra y Cordillera Huayhuash
		We're the experts of the mountain bike experience in one of the world's most spectacular mountain ranges.
		Llanganuco - Santa Cruz: One of the most popular hiking trails in the Cordillera Blanca.
	www.andeanexplorer.com.cob-web.org:8888 /english/home.htm (123 words)

	cordillera blanca trips huaraz peru huascaran national park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Huaraz is a city of about 100,000 people in the state of Ancash about 8 hours by bus from Lima.
		On one side of the valley lies the Cordillera Negra, a snowless range and on the other side the Cordillera Blanca and its looming peaks.
		Bike touring is a treat for the incredible scenery and cultural exchanges as you pass through many Andean villages.
	www.pedalperu.com /huaraz.htm (320 words)

	Cordillera Blanca Highlights
		Trek into the heart of the magnificent Cordillera Blanca area
		This is our base for climbs and treks into the Cordillera Blanca.
		Huaraz is at 10,100 ft. So in order to adjust to the altitude we’ll spend 3 nights here before starting our trek into the Cordillera.
	www.exploreyourplanet.com /trips/peru/cordillera_blanca_highlights.htm (591 words)

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		One of the most spectacular alpine hiking regions in Latin America, the Cordillera Blanca north of Lima is the world's largest concentration of snow-capped mountains in the tropics, with more than twenty peaks over 20,000 ft. including massive Mt. Huascarn, Peru's tallest mountain and third highest in the Western Hemisphere.
		Trek past the green glacial waters of Lake Llanganuco and camp in high valleys with great views of some of the most beautiful mountains on Earth.
		Arrive in Lima, airport reception and transfer to the modern district of Miraflores to overnight at the Hotel Antara or similar.
	www.wildland.com /trips/details/31/peru_itin.aspx (719 words)

	Information and Service guide for Huaraz Perú and the Cordillera Blanca.
		There is plenty of good trekking, or for the more adventurous, bagging peaks, skiing glaciers, and general mountaineering.
		The foods to try are Cuy or guinea pig, any of the local soups, the wide variety of Ceviche, and lomo frito.
		The entry to Huaraz and the Cordillera Balnca, the Cordillera Huayhuash, and the Callejon de Huaylas.
	huaylas.com (318 words)

	Amazon.com: Classic Climbs of the Cordillera Blanca Peru: Books: Brad Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		"Classic Climbs of the Cordillera Blanca gives every climber the information he or she is looking for!"
		Classic Climbs of the Cordillera Blanca is simply the finest climbing guide I have ever seen.
		If you plan to travel to the Cordiller Blanca, this book is a most.
	www.amazon.com /Classic-Climbs-Cordillera-Blanca-Peru/dp/1890437905 (685 words)

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