Editing Geography of Colombia (section)

==Extreme points==
{{Main|Extreme points of Colombia}}
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Snowfields and glaciers in Colombia are limited to the highest peaks and ranges in the Cordillera Central and Cordillera Oriental and above the {{Convert|4700|m|ft|adj=on}} elevation on the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. The total area of snowfields and glaciers was estimated to be about 104 square kilometers in the early 1970s.

Historical, geographical, and pictorial records point toward a consistent and progressive depletion of ice-and-snow masses in the Colombian Andes since the end of the "Little Ice Age" in the late 1800s. Many glaciers have disappeared during the 20th century, and others are expected to disappear in the coming decades.<ref name=USGS>[http://pubs.usgs.gov/prof/p1386i/colombia/intro.html USGS: Glaciers of Colombia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821191718/http://pubs.usgs.gov/prof/p1386i/colombia/intro.html |date=2008-08-21 }} USGS Accessed 23 August 2007.</ref>