Bolivar peak is the highest geographic accident in Venezuela, with an official altitude of 4,978 meters. 1 2 It is part of a group of peaks located in Sierra Nevada within the national park of the same name in the Cordillera de Mérida (Mérida State). Along with the sister peaks: Humboldt and Bonpland form the main peaks of the Andean chain of Venezuelans.
It receives its name in honor to the Venezuelan Liberator Simon Bolivar. The 19 of April of 1951 was unveiled a bronze bust of the Liberator in the peak summit, work of the painter and sculptor Marcos Leon Mariño.
The peak has received at least four different names throughout history, the name with which it was first known was the one of "peak The Column", 4 name that also was used indifferently with the names of "Concha »And« Peineta
On March 18, 1925, on the proposal of Dr. Tulio Febres Cordero and Juan Rodríguez Suárez, the name was changed to "pico Bolívar" in honor of the Liberator of Gran Colombia, Simón Bolívar.5 The official baptism with the A new denomination was held on December 30, 1934, in a ceremony at the foot of the monument of La Columna and with water from the river Chama.6 However, both the name "pico Bolívar" and "Pico La Columna" Maintained until the mid-1950s, when some impressions of the physical-political map of the United States of Venezuela were published that pointed to the peak with both place-names.
At the moment, the name of the "Column" is used to refer to the mass that contains to the Bolivar peak, as well as other important elevations like the peak the Lion of 4743 msnm and the peak El Toro of 4750 msnm, whereas the name of « Concha "is used to refer to another peak located in the same mountain range which was previously referred to as" La Garza ".
