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List of highest items ==Settlements==

Item	Place	Altitude (metres)
National capital	La Paz, Bolivia Quito, Ecuador* || 3600 2850
Permanent settlement	La Rinconada, Peru	5100
City > 50,000 people	Cerro de Pasco, Peru**	4330
City > 100,000 people	El Alto, Bolivia	4150
City > 1,000,000 people	Quito, Ecuador	2850
City > 10,000,000 people	Mexico City, Mexico	2250

• La Paz is the de facto administrative capital of Bolivia. Officially, the capital is Sucre, located at an altitude of 2810 m, making Quito the highest official capital.
  • The population of La Rinconada was estimated (as of 2012) as 50,000. The actual population is likely to be higher than 50,000.

Geography

Item	Description	Altitude (metres)
Mountain	Mount Everest, Nepal/China	8,848
Active volcano	Cotopaxi, Ecuador	5,897
Mountain on an island	Puncak Jaya (New Guinea), Indonesia	4,884
Lake	Ojos del Salado Pool, Chile/Argentina	6,400
Lake (navigable)	Lake Titicaca, Peru/Bolivia	3,800

Nature

This only includes naturally occuring examples.

Animals

Item	Description	Altitude (metres)
Bird (in flight)	Rüppell's vulture	up to 11,300
Bird (nesting)	Alpine chough in the Himalayas	up to 4,877
Land Animal	Yak in the Himalayas	up to 5,400
Rodent	Himalayan Pika	up to 4,200
Non-human primates	Geladas in the Ethiopian Highlands	up to 4,500

Plants

Item	Description	Altitude (metres)
Plant	Moss on Mount Everest	6,480
Flowering Plant	Christolea himalayensis on Mount Kamet, India	6,300
Tree	Juniperus tibetica on the Tibetan Plateau, China	up to 4,900

Human Achievement

Item	Description	Altitude (metres)
Altitude attained (by a human)	Apollo 13 Crew, on 15th of April, 1970, 254km from the lunar surface, on the far side.	400,171,000
Altitude attained (by an airplane)	Brian Binnie, in SpaceShipOne, on 4th of October, 2004	102,900 ... References External links www.example.com