Definition of Aconcagua

1. Noun. The highest mountain in the western hemisphere; located in the Andes in western Argentina (22,834 feet high).

Group relationships: Argentina, Argentine Republic, Andes
Generic synonyms: Mountain Peak

Definition of Aconcagua

1. Proper noun. A mountain in the Andes, the highest point in South America ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aconcagua

Ackermann
Ackermann function
Ackinchesacky
Acmeism
Acmeist
Acmeists
Acnidosporidia
Acocanthera
Acocanthera oblongifolia
Acocanthera oppositifolia
Acocanthera spectabilis
Acocanthera venenata
Acol
Acoli
Acoma
Aconcagua
Aconitum
Aconitum lycoctonum
Aconitum napellus
Acoraceae
Acores
Acorus
Acorus calamus
Acosta's disease
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Acragas
Acrasiomycetes
Acre
Acre antshrike
Acre antshrikes

Literary usage of Aconcagua

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1898)
"It was getting late in the season, and the weather interfered much with our work at the high camps on aconcagua. I heard so much about Tupungato and the ..."

2. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"I was surprised at hearing afterwards that aconcagua in Chile, 480 miles northwards, was in action on the same night; and still more surprised to hear that ..."

3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"CHAPTER XIV CHILOE AND CONCEPCION : GREAT EARTHQUAKE San Carlos, Chiloe—Osorno in eruption, contemporaneously with aconcagua and ..."

4. Chile at the Pan-American Exposition by Chile (1901)
"El Carmen " mine, Los Condores, Petorca, aconcagua. No. 1975—Copper pyrite. ... "El Alto" mine, Petorca, aconcagua. No. 1994—Copper, gold and silver ore. ..."

5. Panama to Patagonia: The Isthmian Canal and the West Coast Countries to by Charles Melville Pepper (1906)
"IN places the river aconcagua is like the Platte of Nebraska, which is famous for ... Yet the stream is more picturesque than the flat top of Mt. aconcagua, ..."

6. Central and South America by Augustus Henry Keane, Clements Robert Markham (1901)
"Mercedario—aconcagua—Tupungato Beyond the transverse Sierra de Dofta Ana, ... By his ascent of aconcagua, which lies about midway between its two rivals—40 ..."

7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"... it will proceed to explore the mountain of Tupungato and also Mercedario, in the province of Coquimbo, which is nearly as high as aconcagua. ..."

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