by Lucas Dominguez Vargas | Apr 30, 2020 | Notes
The glaciers of Ecuador are located in the mountain ranges of volcanic origin and are restricted to the highest peaks. The glaciers (Antisana, Cotopaxi, Chimborazo, Cayambe, Los Ilinizas (north and south), El Altar and Carihuairazo) are limited to two mountain ranges:...
by Francisca Albiña | Apr 27, 2020 | News
Last Monday, April 20, the Environmental Assessment Commission of the Valparaíso Region, approved in an online session the controversial project “Las Tejas pre-feasibility mining soundings” presented by the company Minera Vizcachitas Holding (CMVH), which considers...
by José Pinedo Ried | Apr 22, 2020 | News
During Sunday April 19, after noon, it was easy to see from different parts of Santiago, a notorious cloud that apparently emanated behind Cerro La Paloma and Altar, where the Yerba Loca Sanctuary Valley closes in the Andes mountain range. This coincides with the...
by Equipo Glaciar | Apr 20, 2020 | Notes
Glaciers are one of the most sublime expressions of nature. The Chilean writer Francisco Coloane describes the landscapes of the ice kingdom as fascinating places, of immeasurable greatness, solitude and surrealism. And also of dangers, by the way. In addition to...
by René Hernández Tapia | Apr 14, 2020 | Glacier Law
I invite you to remember that glaciers in our country do not yet have a particular law to protect them, the last of the six attempts to create a protection standard, has been in the formation stage in our National Congress since July 4 2018, by the way, without...