Los Penitentes
Los Penitentes is a ski area in Argentina. It sits at about 2,977 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 2.8 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 14 marked runs and 5 lifts, totalling about 10 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 393 cm of snowfall a season, 179th (tied) of the 3,112 ski areas we measure worldwide. The model runs well below what resorts report, so the ranking is the meaningful part rather than the centimetre figure. The nearest city of any size is Mendoza, about 95 km away. 6 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.
Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.
We do not show a snow depth here. The weather model we use reports snow lying on the ground — it knows nothing about grooming or snowmaking, and it is not the base depth a ski area publishes. In Japan we can check our figures against 234 weather stations. Outside Japan there is nothing to check them against, so we do not print a number we have not verified.
Score breakdown
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☁️ 26 Sept | 0 | -0.4 / 7.2 | 7 |
| ☁️ 27 Sept | 0 | -2.5 / 7.5 | 7.1 |
| ❄️ 28 Sept | 2.1 | -1.3 / 6 | 7.4 |
| 🌨️ 29 Sept | 0.4 | -7.3 / 4.6 | 7.3 |
| 🌨️ 30 Sept | 2.7 | -2.1 / 1.6 | 8.8 |
| ❄️ 1 Oct | 3.5 | -0.9 / 5.2 | 4.8 |
| ⛈️ 2 Oct | 29.7 | -1.5 / 3.7 | 3.8 |
Runs and lifts
Counted from the runs and lifts drawn on OpenStreetMap, within the boundary of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Run map
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
Only 14% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Lift types
- Chairlift2
- T-bar1
- Rope tow1
- Drag lift1
See past trail maps on Skimap.org ↗
Source: OpenSkiMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Vertical is the difference between the highest and lowest points of the mapped runs and lifts.
How much snow it gets
Measured by us across 3,112 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
The tick marks the median across the 395 Japanese ski areas. All four bars run the same way — longer is better.
The quality score deliberately excludes how much snow falls — it uses temperature, frequency, rain and wind. Snowing a lot and snowing well are different things.
Compared with what is nearby
Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Puquios | 5.3 km | 393 cm | 179 |
| Ski Portillo | 27 km | 416 cm | 152 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in June. September brings 79% of July’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Argentina (61%). For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: September brings 45 cm, less than the median of 56 cm.
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
More places to look
Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28