User:Fridge Leprechaun/List of highest items
Appearance
![]() | This is not a Wikipedia article: It is an individual user's work-in-progress page, and may be incomplete and/or unreliable. For guidance on developing this draft, see Wikipedia:So you made a userspace draft. Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
List of highest items ==Settlements==
Item | Place | Altitude (metres) |
---|---|---|
National capital | La Paz, Bolivia | |
Permanent settlement | La Rinconada, Peru | 5100 |
City > 50,000 people | Cerro de Pasco, Peru** | 4330 |
City > 100,000 people | El Alto, Bolivia | 4150 |
City > 1,000,000 people | Quito, Ecuador | 2850 |
City > 10,000,000 people | Mexico City, Mexico | 2250 |
- La Paz is the de facto administrative capital of Bolivia. Officially, the capital is Sucre, located at an altitude of 2810 m, making Quito the highest official capital.
- The population of La Rinconada was estimated (as of 2012) as 50,000. The actual population is likely to be higher than 50,000.
Geography
[edit]Item | Description | Altitude (metres) |
---|---|---|
Mountain | Mount Everest, Nepal/China | 8,848 |
Active volcano | Cotopaxi, Ecuador | 5,897 |
Mountain on an island | Puncak Jaya (New Guinea), Indonesia | 4,884 |
Lake | Ojos del Salado Pool, Chile/Argentina | 6,400 |
Lake (navigable) | Lake Titicaca, Peru/Bolivia | 3,800 |
Nature
[edit]This only includes naturally occuring examples.
Animals
[edit]Item | Description | Altitude (metres) |
---|---|---|
Bird (in flight) | Rüppell's vulture | up to 11,300 |
Bird (nesting) | Alpine chough in the Himalayas | up to 4,877 |
Land Animal | Yak in the Himalayas | up to 5,400 |
Rodent | Himalayan Pika | up to 4,200 |
Non-human primates | Geladas in the Ethiopian Highlands | up to 4,500 |
Plants
[edit]Item | Description | Altitude (metres) |
---|---|---|
Plant | Moss on Mount Everest | 6,480 |
Flowering Plant | Christolea himalayensis on Mount Kamet, India | 6,300 |
Tree | Juniperus tibetica on the Tibetan Plateau, China | up to 4,900 |
Human Achievement
[edit]Item | Description | Altitude (metres) |
---|---|---|
Altitude attained (by a human) | Apollo 13 Crew, on 15th of April, 1970, 254km from the lunar surface, on the far side. | 400,171,000 |
Altitude attained (by an airplane) | Brian Binnie, in SpaceShipOne, on 4th of October, 2004 | 102,900 ...
References[edit]External links[edit]
|