Parque de Nieve Batea Mahuida is a ski area in Argentina, at about 1,584 m. Its mapped area is about 1.7 km across, with 4 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 2.8 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 437 cm of snowfall a season, 122nd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 5th in Argentina. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2022 (593 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2025 (222 cm). Snowfall days average −0.5 °C at mid-mountain, close to freezing, so the snow is often heavy, and its snow-quality score ranks 9th of 13 in Argentina.
The nearest city of any size is Temuco, about 118 km away.
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. Snow report on the official site ↗
Score breakdown
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❄️ 7 Oct | 0.1 | -1.8 / 6.9 | 7.2 |
| 🌦️ 8 Oct | 0 | 0.6 / 4.7 | 8.1 |
| ❄️ 9 Oct | 1.2 | -0.3 / 5.5 | 8.6 |
| 🌦️ 10 Oct | 0 | -1.1 / 6.5 | 7.2 |
| 🌦️ 11 Oct | 0 | 0.9 / 7.3 | 5.2 |
| 🌦️ 12 Oct | 0 | 0.6 / 9.3 | 4 |
| 🌦️ 13 Oct | 0 | -0.7 / 8 | 5 |
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 19% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Lift types
- T-bar1
- Platter1
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 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
The tick marks the median across every Japanese ski area we measure. 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.
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in June. September brings 58% of July’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Argentina (61%). In amount, September brings 71 cm, more than the median of 56 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 437 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025 with 222 cm; the biggest was 2022 with 593 cm (2.7 times as much).
Snowfall each winter (June–September total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Official piste map ↗More places to look
Guides covering Argentina
- Which Famous Ski Resorts Actually Get the Most Snow? 24 Names, Measured Niseko is 526th in the world for snowfall. Zermatt is 554th, Jackson Hole 924th, Aspen 1,201st. Measured identically across 3,069 ski areas, the names everyone books and the places it actually snows turn out to be two different lists.
- Nevados de Chillán: South America's Snowiest Ski Area, and Why Its Snow Is Wet Nevados de Chillán gets 752 cm a season, 3rd of the 3,069 ski areas we measure and the most in South America by a distance. Its snow falls at an average of +0.3 °C, which is the catch, and its winters run from 188 cm to 1,121 cm.
- In the Andes, Height Does Not Buy You More Snow. It Buys You Snow Instead of Rain. In South America the low ski areas get more snow than the high ones — 387 cm against 307 cm in the middle of each group. Then look at the rain: 2% of winter days against 30%. Volcán Osorno sees rain on 65%. Los Penitentes sees it on 1%.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52