It is at between 4,500 and 4,800 m (14,80015,800 ft) in the tropical Ecuadorian, Colombian, Venezuelan, and northern Peruvian Andes, going up to 4,8005,200 m (15,80017,060 ft) in the drier mountains of southern Peru south to northern Chile south to about 30S, then going down to on Aconcagua at 32S, at 40S, at 50S, and only in Tierra del Fuego at 55S; from 50S, many of the bigger glaciers go down to sea level.
