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  Caption Vertical aerial photograph of glaciers on the southeast side of Cerro Mercedario
  Elevation 6720
  Elevation 6,720 metres (22,047 feet) Location= San Juan , Argentina




Cerro Mercedario is the highest peak of the Cordillera De La Ramada range and the eighth highest mountain of the Andes . It is located 100km to the north of Aconcagua , in the Argentine an province of San Juan. It was first ascended in 1934 by Adam Karpiński and Wiktor Ostrowski , members of Polish andinist expedition led by Konstanty Jodko-Narkiewicz .

There is no evidence that this mountain has ever been accurately measured. The elevation given here is estimated from SRTM data. An oft quoted elevation of 6770m is too high to be compatible with SRTM data.