Trips to Bolivia

TRIPS TO BOLIVIA: MADE SNOW-WHITE ILLIMANI

Recommended age of visit: of June to August

Illimani is a voice of the language will aymará that it means “to eagle sea bream”.

This imposing mountain, of 6,882 ms, lifts tapeworm defying to the sky, between 15º and 17º of South latitude, and 70º and 71º of west longitude, doing resistance with the flattened Mururata that fulge more to the north within the Andean chain.

The Illimani adorns the horizon of the city of La Paz, and is the greater height of the Real Mountain range. The resistance between the great depression where it is located the city of La Paz and the extensive and white Illimani is surprising, and is difficult to imagine La Paz without the giant mountain, towards the south-east of the city.

Although frequently considered or tried like snowed, it is an extinguished volcano, being his last eruption in 1869.

First scaled that it was Sir William Martin Conway de Allington in his expeditions by South America. In 1898 it promoted the Aconcagua, the Sorata (Illampu) and the Illimani; in addition it explored part of Tierra Del Fuego.

For that they enjoy the mountain, the ascent to the Illimani is an indescribable experience.

From the summit the plateau is controlled, the Titicaca lake, to Peru, the Sajama to Chile and the valleys lowering towards the Amazonia.

The image of the Illimani, comprises of the shield of La Paz.