It has a height of 6,120 metres (20,079 ft).

It is located at Antofagasta de la Sierra, Catamarca Province, at the Puna de Atacama.

[3] The first recorded ascent of Cerro Vallecitos was by Henri Barret (France) April 14, 1999.

[2] Other data from available digital elevation models: SRTM yields 6097 metres,[4] ASTER 6079 metres,[5] ASTER filled 6097 metres,[6] ALOS 6079 metres,[7] TanDEM-X 6138 metres,[8] The height of the nearest key col is 4930 meters, leading to a topographic prominence of 1190 meters.

Its parent peak is Sierra Nevada de Lagunas Bravas and the Topographic isolation is 39.4 kilometers.