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The Andes range consist of hundreds of mountain peaks. The world's longest above-water mountain range is the Andes, [1] about 7,000 km (4,300 mi) long. The range stretches from north to south through seven countries in South America, along the west coast of the continent: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina.
Mount Logan is the largest non-volcanic mountain in base area (311 km 2 or 120 sq mi). The highest mountains above sea level are also not those with peaks farthest from the centre of the Earth, because the shape of the Earth is not spherical. Sea level closer to the equator is several kilometres farther from the centre of the Earth.
The range's highest peak, Argentina's Aconcagua, rises to an elevation of about 6,961 m (22,838 ft) above sea level. The peak of Chimborazo in the Ecuadorian Andes is farther from the Earth's center than any other location on the Earth's surface, due to the equatorial bulge resulting from the Earth's rotation .
This is an incomplete list of notable mountains on Earth, sorted by elevation in metres above sea level. For a complete list of mountains over 7200 m high, with at least 500 m of prominence, see List of highest mountains. See also a list of mountains ranked by prominence.
Height on the other hand simply means elevation of the summit above sea level. Regarding parents, the prominence parent of peak A can be found by dividing the island or region in question into territories, by tracing the runoff from the key col (mountain pass) of every peak that is more prominent than peak A. The parent is the peak whose ...
The longest mountain range in the world (above sea level) is the Andes, consisting of several subranges. Cordillera de los Andes, in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela: Cordillera Central, Colombia; Cordillera Occidental, Colombia; Cordillera Oriental, Colombia, Venezuela Serranía del Perijá, Colombia, Venezuela
sea level 1752 m 5,748 ft Guinea-Bissau: Monte Torin: 266 m 873 ft North Atlantic Ocean: sea level 266 m 873 ft Guyana: Mount Roraima: 2772 m 9,094 ft [v] North Atlantic Ocean: sea level 2772 m 9,094 ft Haiti: Pic la Selle: 2680 m 8,793 ft Caribbean Sea: sea level 2680 m 8,793 ft Heard Island and McDonald Islands: Big Ben (Mawson Peak) [d] 2745 ...
North Face of Everest as seen from the path to North Base Camp Everest and Lhotse from the south (Nepal): in the foreground are Thamserku, Kangtega, and Ama Dablam. Mount Everest, known locally as Sagarmatha or Qomolangma, [note 4] is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas.