The glaciers of Chile cover 2.7% (20,188 km) of the land area of the country, excluding Antártica Chilena, and have a considerable impact on its landscape and water supply. By surface 80% of South America's glaciers lie in Chile. Glaciers develop in the Andes of Chile from 27˚S southwards and in a very few places north of 18°30'S in the extreme north of the country: in between they are absent because of extreme aridity, though rock glaciers formed from permafrost are common. The largest glaciers of Chile are the Northern and Southern Patagonian Ice Fields. From a latitude of 47° S and south some glaciers reach sea level.
Apart from height and latitude, the settings of Chilean glaciers depend on precipitation patterns; in this sense two different regions exist: the Dry Andes and the Wet Andes.
List of ice fields
This is a list of the ice fields of Chile.
List of glaciers
North
Center
South
- Garibaldi Glacier
- Schiaparelli Glacier
- Balmaceda Glacier
- Tyndall Glacier or Geike Glacier
- Grey Glacier
- Amalia Glacier
- Dickson Glacier
- Ameghino Glacier
- Speghazzini Glacier
- Upsala Glacier
- Viedma Glacier
- Southern Patagonian Ice Field
- Brüggen Glacier or Pío XI Glacier
- Chico Glacier
- O'Higgins Glacier
- Tempano Glacier
- Ofhidro Glacier
- Jorge Montt Glacier
- Steffen Glacier
- Colonia Glacier
- Nef Glacier
- Northern Patagonian Ice Field
- Soler Glacier
- San Quintín Glacier
- San Rafael Glacier
- Gualas Glacier
- Hudson Volcano
- Michinmahuida Volcano
- Blanco Chico Glacier
- Casa Pangue Glacier
- Villarrica Glacier
- Bernardo Glacier
(Following Glaciers aren't in the list of http://www.glaciologia.cl)
- Alemania Glacier
- Darwin Glacier
- Exploradores Glacier
- Francia Glacier
- Grandes Ventisqueros
- Gran Campo Nevado
- Holanda Glacier
- Italia Glacier
- La Paloma Glacier
- Leones Glacier
- Los Perros Glacier
- Marinelli Glacier
- Mocho-Choshuenco
- Patagonian Ice Sheet†
- Pingo Glacier
- Queulat Glacier
- Romanche Glacier
- Serrano Glacier
- Stoppani Glacier
- Yelcho Glacier
External links
- (in Spanish) Chilean glacier inventory at Glaciologia.cl of Andrés Rivera
- Climate change and tropical Andean glaciers: Past, present and future Archived 2012-01-06 at the Wayback Machine
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