Glaciers in South America develop exclusively on the Andes

Andes

The Andes is the world's longest continental mountain range. It is a continual range of highlands along the western coast of South America. This range is about long, about to wide , and of an average height of about .Along its length, the Andes is split into several ranges, which are separated...

 and are subject of the Andes various climatic regimes namely the Tropical Andes

Tropical Andes

The Tropical Andes is a subregion of the Andes spanning all of the Andes except the southern mediterranean and temperate zones. The Tropical Andes is an biodiversity hotspot named the “global epicenter of biodiversity” according to the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund.The Tropical Andes area is...

, Dry Andes

Dry Andes

The Dry Andes is a climatic and glaciological subregion of the Andes. Together with the Wet Andes it is one of the two subregions of the Argentine and Chilean Andes. The Dry Andes runs from the Atacama Desert in northern Chile and Argentina south to a latitude of 35°S in Chile. In Argentina the Dry...

 and the Wet Andes

Wet Andes

The Wet Andes is a climatic and glaciological subregion of the Andes. Together with the Dry Andes it is one of the two subregions of the Argentine and Chilean Andes. The Wet Andes runs from a latitude of 35°S to Cape Horn at 56°S. According to Luis Lliboutry the Wet Andes can be classified after...

. Apart from this there is a wide range of latitudes on which glaciers develop from 5000 m in the Altiplano

Altiplano

The Altiplano , in west-central South America, where the Andes are at their widest, is the most extensive area of high plateau on Earth outside of Tibet...

 mountains and volcanoes to reaching sealevel as tidewater glaciers from San Rafael Lagoon

San Rafael Lagoon

San Rafael Lagoon is an arc-shaped coastal lake located in the Aisén Region of Chile, within the national park that bears its name. To the north the lagoon is connected to the Moraleda Channel, to the south lies the Ofqui Isthmus...

 (45° S) and southwards. South America hosts two large ice field

Ice field

An ice field is an area less than 50,000 km² of ice often found in the colder climates and higher altitudes of the world where there is sufficient precipitation. It is an extensive area of interconnected valley glaciers from which the higher peaks rise as nunataks...

s, the Northern

Northern Patagonian Ice Field

The Northern Patagonian Ice Field, located in southern Chile, is the smaller of two remnant parts in which the Patagonian Ice Sheet in the Andes Mountains of lower South America can be divided. It is completely contained within the boundaries of Laguna San Rafael National Park...

 and Southern Patagonian Ice Field

Southern Patagonian Ice Field

The Southern Patagonian Ice Field , located at the Southern Patagonic Andes between Argentina and Chile, is the second largest contiguous extrapolar extent of ice in the world...

s, of which the second is the largest contiguous body of glaciers in extrapolar regions. By surface about 80% of South Americas glaciers lie in Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

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Argentina

• Perito Moreno Glacier
  Perito Moreno Glacier
  The Perito Moreno Glacier is a glacier located in the Los Glaciares National Park in the south west of Santa Cruz province, Argentina. It is one of the most important tourist attractions in the Argentine Patagonia....
  
  
• Polish Glacier
  Polish Glacier
  The Polish Glacier is one of the glacial fields of Cerro Aconcagua, the highest peak in the Andes. It was named after the Polish expedition of 1934. Led by Konstanty Jodko-Narkiewicz, the team paved an alternative route to the peak, named the Polish Route, through the glacier....
  
  
• Southern Patagonian Ice Field
  Southern Patagonian Ice Field
  The Southern Patagonian Ice Field , located at the Southern Patagonic Andes between Argentina and Chile, is the second largest contiguous extrapolar extent of ice in the world...
  
   - Argentina/Chile
• Upsala Glacier
  Upsala Glacier
  The Upsala Glacier is a large valley glacier in Argentina's Los Glaciares National Park. It flows out from the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, which also feeds the nearby Perito Moreno Glacier. The terminus of the glacier is at Lago Argentino...
  
  
• Spegazzini Glacier
• Mayo Glacier
• Onelli Glacier
• Torre Glacier
• Negro Glacier
• Frias Glacier
• Alerce Glacier
• Castaño Overo Glacier
• Manso Glacier
• Peulla Glacier
• Casa Pangue Glacier
• Río Blanco Glacier
• Ventisquero Negro
• Viedma Glacier
• Lagrimas Glacier

Chile

• Amalia Glacier
  Amalia Glacier
  Amalia Glacier, also known as Skua Glacier, is a tidewater glacier located in Bernardo O'Higgins National Park. It originates in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field and from 1945 to 1986 its terminus retreated , being, along with the receded of O'Higgins Glacier, the most drastic retreat of the...
  
  
• Colonia Glacier
  Colonia Glacier
  Colonia Glacier is a valley glacier located in the Northern Patagonian Ice Field, Chile. The glacier spills out to the southeast from an ice plateau north of Cerro Arenales and has its terminus about from Colonia Lake. Colonia Glacier dams three lakes; Cachet I, Cachet II and Arco Lake....
  
  
• Bernardo Glacier
  Bernardo Glacier
  Bernardo Glacier is one of the largest glaciers in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field. It is located northeast of Témpano Glacier, within Bernardo O'Higgins National Park. The glacier flows westward Bernardo Fjord....
  
  
• Brüggen Glacier
  Brüggen Glacier
  Brüggen Glacier, also known as Pío XI Glacier, is in southern Chile and is the largest western outflow from the Southern Patagonian Ice Field. Now about in length, it is the longest glacier in the southern hemisphere outside of Antarctica...
  
   or Pío XI Glacier
• Dickson Glacier
  Dickson Glacier
  Dickson Glacier is located in Torres del Paine National Park of southern Chile. Geologically it is in the southeastern outflow from the Southern Patagonian Ice Field.-External links:*...
  
  
• Francia Glacier
• Garibaldi Glacier
• Grandes Ventisqueros
• Gran Campo Nevado
  Gran Campo Nevado
  The Gran Campo Nevado is a small ice field located in the southern portion of the Muñoz Gamero Peninsula, in Chile. It is about in area and feeds 19 outlet glaciers, of which the largest one is long.-References:...
  
  
• Grey Glacier
  Grey Glacier
  Grey Glacier is a glacier in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, just west of the Cordillera del Paine. It flows southward into the lake of the same name.-Surroundings:...
  
  
• Holanda Glacier
• Italia Glacier
• Jorge Montt Glacier
  Jorge Montt Glacier
  Jorge Montt Glacier is a tidewater glacier located in the Aisén Region of Chile, south of the town of Caleta Tortel. It lies at the north end of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, within Bernardo O'Higgins National Park. The mouth of Pascua River is located in the vicinity of the glacier calving...
  
  
• Juncal Norte Glacier
  Juncal Norte Glacier
  Juncal Norte Glacier is a glacier located in Nevado Juncal of the Valparaíso Region. More precisely it is placed in the heading of the watershed of Aconcagua River, Central Chile....
  
  
• Juncal Sur Glacier
  Juncal Sur Glacier
  Juncal Sur Glacier is a glacier located in Nevado Juncal of the Valparaíso Region. More precisely it is placed in the heading of the watershed of Aconcagua River, Central Chile....
  
  
• La Paloma Glacier
  La Paloma Glacier
  La Paloma Glacier is a glacier located some northeast of Santiago. It one of the largest glaciers of central Chile. It originates at AMSL and ends at ....
  
  
• Leones Glacier
• Los Perros Glacier
• Marinelli Glacier
  Marinelli Glacier
  Marinelli Glacier is a tidewater glacier located in Alberto de Agostini National Park, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego. The glacier spills out from the backbone of the Cordillera Darwin and calves into Ainsworth Bay, an embayment of the Almirantazgo Fjord...
  
  
• Nef Glacier
  Nef Glacier
  Nef Glacier is a glacier located in Laguna San Rafael National Park, in the Aisén Region of Chile. It trends southeast from Cerro Largo to its terminus in the lake that shared its name....
  
  
• Mocho-Choshuenco
• Northern Patagonian Ice Field
  Northern Patagonian Ice Field
  The Northern Patagonian Ice Field, located in southern Chile, is the smaller of two remnant parts in which the Patagonian Ice Sheet in the Andes Mountains of lower South America can be divided. It is completely contained within the boundaries of Laguna San Rafael National Park...
  
  
• O'Higgins Glacier
  O'Higgins Glacier
  O'Higgins Glacier is a glacier located in Bernardo O'Higgins National Park, Chile. It is one of the principal glaciers of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field. The summit of the active Lautaro volcano is the top of the accumulation zone of the glacier. The bulk of the glacier is part of the icefield...
  
  
• Patagonian Ice Sheet
  Patagonian Ice Sheet
  350px|thumb|right|Map showing the extent of the Patagonian Ice Sheet in the [[Strait of Magellan]] area during the [[last glacial period]]. Selected modern settlements are shown with yellow dots...
  
  
• Pingo Glacier
• Queulat Glacier
• Romanche Glacier
• San Francisco Glacier
  San Francisco Glacier
  The San Francisco Glacier is a glacier in Monumento Natural El Morado Natural Park a hundred kilometers away from Santiago, Chile. It is a tourist attraction.-References:...
  
  
• San Quintín Glacier
  San Quintín Glacier
  The San Quintín Glacier is the largest outflow glacier of the Northern Patagonian Ice Field in southern Chile. Its terminus is a piedmont lobe just short of the Gulf of Penas on the Pacific Ocean and just north of 47°S.-Recent retreat:...
  
  
• San Rafael Glacier
  San Rafael Glacier
  The San Rafael Glacier is one of the major outlet glaciers of the Northern Patagonian Ice Field in southern Chile and is the tidewater glacier nearest the equator. It calves into the Laguna San Rafael and is contained within Laguna San Rafael National Park....
  
  
• Serrano Glacier
• Soler Glacier
• Southern Patagonian Ice Field
  Southern Patagonian Ice Field
  The Southern Patagonian Ice Field , located at the Southern Patagonic Andes between Argentina and Chile, is the second largest contiguous extrapolar extent of ice in the world...
  
   - Chile/Argentina
• Steffen Glacier
  Steffen Glacier
  Steffen Glacier is a major outlet glacier of the Northern Patagonian Ice Field in Aysén Region of Chile. It is the southernmost outlet glacier of the Northern Patagonian Ice Field and ends up in a lagoon from where Huemules River is born...
  
  
• Stoppani Glacier
  Stoppani Glacier
  Stoppani Glacier is a valley glacier located in Alberto de Agostini National Park, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego. The glacier spills out from the backbone of the Cordillera Darwin and ends about from Yendegaia Bay giving origin to Yendegaia River....
  
  
• Tyndall Glacier
  Tyndall Glacier (Chile)
  Tyndall Glacier or Geike Glacier is one of the largest glaciers in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field. It is located in the Torres del Paine National Park, Chile. The glacier has its main calving front in Geikie Lake and like its neighbor, Grey Glacier, it has been significantly retreating for the...
  
   or Geike Glacier
• Universidad Glacier
• Yelcho Glacier

Colombia

• Nevado del Ruiz
  Nevado del Ruiz
  The Nevado del Ruiz, also known as La Mesa de Herveo or Kumanday in the language of the local pre-Columbian indigenous people, is a volcano located on the border of the departments of Caldas and Tolima in Colombia, about west of the capital city Bogotá. It is a stratovolcano, composed of many...
  
  
• Ritacuba Blanco
  Ritacuba Blanco
  Ritacuba Blanco is the highest peak of Cordillera Oriental, in the Andes Mountains of Colombia. It's also named Ritak'uwa, an ancient name from the Uwa indigenous people that live in the lowlands of the National Park Sierra Nevada del Cocuy y Güicán, where the Ritacuba Blanco is located.The summit...
  
  
• Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
  Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
  The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is an isolated mountain range apart from the Andes chain that runs through Colombia. Reaching an altitude of 5,700 metres above sea level just 42 km from the Caribbean coast, the Sierra Nevada is the world's highest coastal range...
  
  
• Snow Mountain of Quindio
  Snow Mountain of Quindio
  The Nevado del Quindío is an inactive volcano located in the Central Cordillera of the Andes in central Colombia. The summit marks the tripoint of the departments of Risaralda, Quindío and Tolima, and is also the highest point of the departments of Risaralda and Quindío. The mountain is one of the...
  
  

Ecuador

• Antisana
  Antisana
  Antisana is a stratovolcano of the northern Andes, in Ecuador. It is the fourth highest volcano in Ecuador, at , and is located 50 km SE of the capital city of Quito.Antisana presents one of the most challenging technical climbs in the Ecuadorian Andes....
  
  
• El Altar
  El Altar
  El Altar is an extinct volcano on the western side of Sangay National Park in Ecuador, 170 km south of Quito. Spaniards named it so because it resembled two Nuns and four Friars listening to a Bishop around a church altar...
  
  
• Cayambe
  Cayambe (volcano)
  Cayambe is the name of a volcano located in the Cordillera Oriental, a branch of the Ecuadorian Andes. It is located in Pichincha province some 70 km northeast of Quito. It is the third highest mountain in Ecuador....
  
  
• Chimborazo
  Chimborazo (volcano)
  Chimborazo is a currently inactive stratovolcano located in the Cordillera Occidental range of the Andes. Its last known eruption is believed to have occurred around 550 AD....
  
  
• Cotopaxi
  Cotopaxi
  Cotopaxi is a stratovolcano in the Andes Mountains, located about south of Quito, Ecuador, South America. It is the second highest summit in the country, reaching a height of...
  
  

Venezuela

• Eastern Coromoto glacier
• Sievers glacier
• Pico Bolívar
  Pico Bolívar
  Pico Bolívar is the highest mountain in Venezuela, at 4,981 metres. Located in Mérida State, its top is permanently covered with névé snow and three small glaciers. It can be reached only by walking; the Mérida cable car, the highest cable car in the world, only reaches Pico Espejo. From there it...
  
   - three glaciers
• Timoncito glacier
• La Corona glacier