Geography

The park encompasses parts of six municipalities in the states of Mérida and Barinas three. Its total area is 276,446 hectares, of which 185,886 hectares belong to the Merida state, which means 67.2% of the total area, while the remaining 90,560 ha. They correspond to the state Barinas, 32.8% of the area of the park.

The Sierra Nevada covers one of the two branches of the Cordillera de Merida in the central Andes of Venezuela, which is the namesake Sierra Nevada, the same area is rugged highlighting the location of the major summits in the same country as they are Bolivar Peak (4980 m), Humboldt Peak (4942 m), the La Concha Peak (4922), the Bonpland Peak (4883), the Espejo Peak (4765), Leon Peak (4740) the El Toro Peak (4729) and Mucuñuque Peak (4610).