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Aconcagua
[ ah-kawng-kah-gwah ]
noun
- a mountain in W Argentina, in the Andes: the highest peak in the Western Hemisphere. 22,834 feet (6,960 meters).
Aconcagua
/ Dzˈ첹ɣɲ /
noun
- a mountain in W Argentina: the highest peak in the Andes and in the W Hemisphere. Height: 6960 m (22 835 ft)
Example Sentences
High on Mount Aconcagua, the Western Hemisphere’s highest mountain, the shrinking Polish Glacier spits out what it once devoured — in this case, a 50-year-old Nikomat 35 mm camera.
After climbing to Africa’s highest point on Kilimanjaro, he reached two of the other so-called Seven Summits: North America’s Denali and South America’s Aconcagua.
Her family spent summers in Concón, where the Aconcagua River feeds into the Pacific, leaving rich deposits of driftwood, shells and pebbles on shore.
Besides, it was never about the summits — not Everest or Vinson Massif or Denali or Aconcagua or Kosciuszko or Elbrus or Kilimanjaro, either.
It rises to 20,310 feet and is the third most prominent peak on Earth after Mount Everest and Aconcagua.
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