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Penitentes

Field of regularly spaced ice formations formed by sublimation at high altitudes
Landform glacier Q247574
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Penitentes

Summary

Penitentes is a glacier[1]. Penitentes ranks in the top 0.79% of glacier entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (140 views/month, #7 of 883).[2]

Key Facts

  • Penitentes's image is recorded as Penitentes Upper Rio Blanco Argentine.jpg[3].
  • Penitentes's instance of is recorded as glacier[4].
  • Penitentes's Commons category is recorded as Ice and snow penitents[5].
  • Penitentes's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0ctjyf[6].
  • Penitentes's facet of is recorded as snow[7].
  • Penitentes's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/nieve-penitente[8].
  • Penitentes's different from is recorded as penance[9].
  • Penitentes's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 118195750[10].
  • Penitentes's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as kaiushchiesia-snega-i-l-dy-75d696[11].

Why It Matters

Penitentes ranks in the top 0.79% of glacier entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (140 views/month, #7 of 883).[2] Penitentes has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] Penitentes is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Penitentes. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/penitentes
MLA “Penitentes.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/penitentes.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_penitentes_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Penitentes}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/penitentes}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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