Cerro El Morado
Mountain in Chile
El Morado mountain in winter.
Dutch astronomy professor
Jan Oort
with international astronomy colleagues on horseback connoitering the Chilean mountains for a location where to establish the
European Southern Observatory
, Cerro El Morado, June 1963.
Cerro El Morado
is a mountain in the
Andes
of
Chile
. It has a height of 4,674 metres (15,335 ft).