country cerro steffen
___MASK98___ , officially the Argentine Republic , is a federal republic in the southern half of South America . Sharing the bulk of the Southern Cone with its neighbor ___MASK14___ to the west , the country is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north , Brazil to the northeast , Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east , and the Drake Passage to the south . With a mainland area of , ___MASK98___ is the eighth - largest country in the world , the second largest in Latin America , and the largest Spanish - speaking one . The country is subdivided into twenty - three provinces ( singular " provincia ") and one autonomous city (" ciudad autónoma "), Buenos Aires , which is the federal capital of the nation as decided by Congress . The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions , but exist under a federal system . The Patagonian Ice Sheet was a large elongated and narrow ice sheet centered in the southern Andes that existed during the Llanquihue glaciation . The ice sheet covered all of ___MASK14___ south of Puerto Montt plus the western fringes of Argentine Patagonia . An ice field ( also spelled icefield ) is an area less than of ice often found in the colder climates and higher altitudes of the ___MASK67___ where there is sufficient precipitation . It is an extensive area of interconnected valley glaciers from which the higher peaks rise as nunataks . Ice fields are larger than alpine glaciers , smaller than ice sheets and similar in area to ice caps . The topography of ice fields is determined by the shape of the surrounding land forms , while ice caps have their own forms overriding underlying shapes . ___MASK14___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK14___ , is a South American country occupying a long , narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west . It borders Peru to the north , Bolivia to the northeast , Argentina to the east , and the Drake Passage in the far south . Chilean territory includes the Pacific islands of Juan Fernández , Salas y Gómez , Desventuradas , and Easter Island in Oceania . ___MASK14___ also claims about of Antarctica , although all claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty . Cerro Steffen is one of the highest mountains in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field . It lies on the northeastern edge of the just mentioned icefield , west of O ' Higgins Lake . The Southern Patagonian Ice Field , located at the Southern Patagonic Andes between ___MASK98___ and ___MASK14___ , is the world ' s second largest contiguous extrapolar ice field . It is the bigger of two remnant parts of the Patagonian Ice Sheet , which covered all of southern ___MASK14___ during the last glacial period , locally called the Llanquihue glaciation . The Andes or Andean Mountains are the longest continental mountain range in the ___MASK67___ . They are a continuous range of highlands along the western edge of South America . This range is about long , about wide ( widest between 18 ° south and 20 ° south latitude ), and of an average height of about . The Andes extend from north to south through seven South American countries : Venezuela , Colombia , Ecuador , Peru , ___MASK15___ , Argentina and ___MASK14___ .