Abstract
Based on a series of GPS observations made in 2002 on the summit of Peak Bolívar, the highest Venezuelan mountain, and on seven other nearby sites along the Venezuelan Andes, including another three of the highest peaks of the country; and using a recently derived local geoid for Venezuela, we have determined the orthometric height of Peak Bolívar as 4978.4 ± 0.4 m. This height is 23.6 m smaller than the height obtained by combining trigonometric triangulation techniques and barometric measurements in the nearby town of Mérida in 1912, and 28.6 m smaller than the current official altitude that dates from 1928.
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