(volcanic field 4000? m / 13,123 ft)
Antofagasta de la Sierra is a young volcanic field in Catamarca, NW Argentina, located SW of Beltran volcano and between the Salar de Antofalla on the west and the massive Cerro Galán caldera on the east.
The field contains some of the youngest volcanic vents of vents of th... [
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(Stratovolcano(es) 6409 m / 21027 ft)
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(stratovolcano 6082 m / 19,954 feet)
Aracar volcano is a probably still active stratovolcano in NW Argentina close to the border with Chile. The volcano has a well-preserved 1.5 km wide summit crater with a small crater lake and steep eroded flanks. It is not known whether there has been activity in the Holocene (pa... [
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(Volcanic field 2243 m / 7359 ft)
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(caldera, volcanic group 5189 m / 17,024 ft)
The large 30x45 km wide Caldera del Atuel is located in western Argentina just east of the Argentina-Chile border and 18 km SSW of the rim of Diamante caldera. [
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(complex volcano 5401 m / 17,720 ft)
Cerro Bayo is a complex volcano on the northern Chile/Argentina border. The volcano contains a young cone exactly on the border with a 400 m wide crater which has erupted two 4 km long lava flows to the north and NW.
The youngest known product of the volcano are 2 dacitic ... [
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(Stratovolcano 6049 m / 19846 ft)
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(stratovolcano 6532 m / 21,430 ft)
Cerro el Cóndor is a large stratovolcano located in NW Argentina. it is one of the few larger volcanoes which are completely inside Argentina.
The volcano was built on top of a 2.5-km-wide caldera and contains several ash cones and craters which are aligned on a NNW-SSE tre... [
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(Volcanic field 3791 m / 12438 ft)
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(Stratovolcano(es) 1846 m / 6056 ft)
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(Stratovolcano 5643 m / 18514 ft)
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(stratovolcanoes 1435 m / 4,708 ft)
Cochiquito is part of a small group of young volcanoes (Cochiquito, Sillanegra and Ranquil del Sur ) north of the town of Buta Ranquil, Argentina, near where the Río Grande and Río Barrancas join to form the Río Colorado. [
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(complex volcano 5463 m / 17,923 ft)
Cordón del Azufre is a small volcanic complex on the Argentina/Chile border. The volcano consists of a cluster of lava flows from a row of vents on the NW (Argentinian) side, and a 5 km long chain of vents along the border with Chile.
Note: there is a volcano with a ... [
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(cinder cones 1359 m / 4,459 ft)
Crater Basalt is a volcanic field of 9 cinder cones in the northern Patagonia region of southern Argentina 130 km SE of San Carlos de Bariloche.
The volcanic field covers an area of 700 sq km, and consists of cinder and spatter cones with many overlapping blocky basalt lava... [
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(stratovolcano 4709 m / 15,449 ft)
Volcán Domuyo is a stratovolcano in NW Argentinia and perhaps still an active one. It has a 15-km wide caldera, within which at least 14 dacitic lava domes and other eruptive centers were constructed. Other 5 vents are outside the caldera, the largest being the Volcán Chanque-Mal... [
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(stratovolcano 6190 m / 20,308 ft)
El Solo volcano is large stratovolcano in Argentina at the border with northern Chile and west of Nevados del Ojos de Salado and SE of Tres Cruces volcano.
Is comprises 9 eruptive centers. The age of its last eruptions is unknown, but was during the Holocene (less than 11,... [
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(stratovolcano 5447 m / 17,871 ft)
Cerro Escorial volcano is a small andesitic-dacitic stratovolcano in northern Chile on the border with Argentina. The volcano contains a 1 km wide well-preserved summit crater of possible Holocene age. There are young-looking lava flows mostly towards the Chilean side, but they a... [
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(complex volcano 5890 m / 19,324 ft)
Falso Azufre volcano is a volcanic complex on the Chile/ Argentina border. The 15 km long complex contains overlapping craters and lava domes. The western part contains the highest peak, Cerro Falso Azufre. [
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(stratovolcano 2139 m / 7,018 ft)
Huanquihue volcano is a group of young basaltic stratovolcanoes in western Argentina near the border with Chile and south of Lanín volcano. [
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(volcanic field summit elevation unknown)
Infiernillo ("little hell") is a young basaltic-andesite volcanic field located along the Río Salado in Argentina about 70 km east of the crest of the Andes and NW of the town of Malargüe, 1000 km distance from Buenos Aires.
Volcanism in the field was caused by extensional... [
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(volcanic field 1700 m / 5,577 ft)
Laguna Bianca is a group of cinder cones and lava flows SW of the town of Zapala. A perfectly shaped and youthful-looking cinder cone on the northern shore of Laguna Blanca is the most prominent feature.
Laguna Blanca National Park is famous for its aquatic bird fauna, incl... [
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(caldera 3092 m / 10,144 ft)
Laguna del Maule is a 15x25 km wide lake-filled volcanic caldera in central Chile near the border to Argentina, east of Nevados de Longavi volcano. The complex is less than 30,000 years old and covers 300 km2 contains a cluster of small stratovolcanoes, lava domes, and cinder con... [
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(stratovolcano 3747 m / 12,293 ft)
Lanín is a large, conical and active (but at present dormant) stratovolcano on the Chile-Argentina border, located approximately 45 km southeast of Villarrica volcano.
The volcano is mostly basaltic and andesitic in composition and many eruptions came from flank vents.
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(stratovolcano 5697 m / 18,691 ft)
Lastarria is a stratovolcano on the Argentina/Chile border. The volcano contains 5 nested summit craters. The youngest part of the volcano is a lava dome overlapping the northern crater.
A large prehistoric debris avalanche deposit is located on the SE flank and younger de... [
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(Pyroclastic cone(s) 1876 m / 6155 ft)
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(stratovolcano 6739 m / 22,109 ft)
Llullaillaco is the world's highest historically active volcano. It is on the border between Chile and Argentina and belongs to the Puna de Atacama, a region of very high volcanic peaks on a high plateau within the Atacama Desert, one of the driest places in the world.
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(caldera 5264 m / 17,270 ft)
Maipo is a conical stratovolcano in the High Andes on the Chile-Argentina border 108 km SE of Santiago. Maipo partially fills the large 15 x 20 km Diamante caldera, which formed about half a million years ago during a massive eruption. [
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(Stratovolcano 6019 m / 19747 ft)
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(Stratovolcano 6018 m / 19744 ft)
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(stratovolcano 6887 m / 22,595 ft)
Ojos del Salado volcano in February 2012 (Photo: Ulla Lohmann)
Nevados Ojos del Salado is the world's highest active volcano. It is located on the Chile/Argentina border, about 20 km south of the road that crosses Argentina-CHile border at Paso de San Francisco.
The mountain has very dry conditions with snow only remaining on the peak... [
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(cinder cones and maars 282 m / 925 ft)
Palei-Aike volcano (also written as Pali-Aike volcano) is a young volcanic field along the border of southern Argentina and CHile, north of the Straits of Magellan. It contains lake-filled maars and basaltic cinder cones and young lava flows. [
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(shield volcano 3680 m / 12,073 ft)
Cerro Payún Matru is a massive Hawaiian-style shield volcano in Argentina located lies 530 km from the oceanic trench, which marks the subduction of the Nazca plate. It contains a 8 x 10 km caldera which was formed after about 168,000 years ago. [
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(stratovolcano 5740 m / 18,832 ft)
Peinado volcano is a symmetrical stratovolcano in NW Argentina and one of the youngest volcanoes of the region.
It has young, well preserved lava flows from the summit and flank vents, which extend up to 10 km from the summit. [
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(complex volcano 4107 m / 13,474 ft)
Planchón-Peteroa is an elongated complex volcano along the Chile-Argentina border with several overlapping calderas. It is less than 550,000 years old and was formed by 3 different volcanoes representing different generations of the volcano: Azufre, Planchon and Peteroa.
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(pyroclastic cone 970 m / 3,182 ft)
The Puesto Cortaderas formation in Argentina is an isolated basaltic cinder cone SE of the Sierra Huantraico range, NE of Puesta Cortaderas, and is believed to be younger than 10,000 years old. [
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(stratovolcano 4999 m / 16,401 ft)
Risco Plateado is a volcanic complex about 10 km south of the Caldera del Atuel and consists of a stratovolcano cut by a 4-km-wide caldera. The age of the last eruption is known but thought to be Holocene (within the past 11,000 years). There are youthful-looking basalt lava flow... [
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(caldera 4400 m / 14,436 ft)
Robledo volcano (also referred to as Cerro Blanco volcano) is a 6-km wide caldera in NW Argentina, located 80 km SW of the much larger and better known Cerro Galán caldera.
It contains Cerro Blanco del Robledo lava dome on the southern rim of the caldera. There are extensi... [
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(stratovolcano 5856 m / 19,212 ft)
Volcán San José volcano on the Chile-Argentina lies at the southern end of a volcano group that includes the older volcanoes of Marmolejo and Espíritu Santo. San José volcano has a broad 2 km x 0.5 km summit region with overlapping and nested craters, pyroclastic cones, and block... [
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(complex volcano 6127 m / 20,101 ft)
Sierra Nevada is a volcanic complex on the Chile/ Argentina border in one of the remotest parts of the Central Andes. The volcano covers 225 km2 contains at least 12 volcanic vents, craters with up to 400 m diameter and large andesitic lava flows which reached 7 km distance.
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(stratovolcano 6051 m / 19,852 ft)
Socompa is a massive stratovolcano on the Chile/Argentina border. It is located at the southeastern end of the Atacama Basin and immediately north of the only railway line between Chile and Argentina.
The dacite volcano is known for having the world's largest and best prese... [
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(complex volcano 6660 m / 21,850 ft)
Cerro Tipas (also known as Cerro Walter Penk) volcano is a massive volcanic complex in NW Argentina located immediately SSW of its better known neighbor, 6887-m-high Nevados Ojos del Salado. Tipas is the third highest active volcano in the world. It is poorly known because of its... [
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(stratovolcano summit elevation unknown)
Tralihue volcano in southwest Argentina is one of the lesser known probably still active volcanoes in the Andes. In post-glacial times, it has erupted small lava domes and basaltic tephra erupted from vents on a NW-trending fracture zone. [
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(Stratovolcano 6620 m / 21719 ft)
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(lava domes 2500 m / 8,202 ft)
Trocon volcano is a group of overlapping lava domes in southwest Argentina, 28 km NE of Copahue volcano. The volcano has 2 summit craters and a cinder cone which produced an andesitic lava flow to the east. [
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(stratovolcano 3978 m / 13,051 ft)
Tromen volcano is a stratovolcano in NW Argentina, and lies at the northern end of an elongated volcanic massif. The summit of Tromen is cut by two overlapping 3.5-km-wide calderas. [
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(stratovolcano 6000 m / 19,685 ft)
Tupungatito volcano is the northernmost historically active volcano of the central Chilean Andes. It is located on the Chile/Argentina border 99 km east of Santiago.
Tupungatito's name is a diminuitive version of the massive Cerro Tupungato stratovolcano located immediately... [
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(Stratovolcano 6570 m / 21555 ft)
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(stratovolcano 5500 m / 18,044 ft)
Cerro Tuzgle volcano in NW Argentina is the easternmost young stratovolcano of the Central Andes. It is about 120 km distance east of the main volcanic front. It has many young lava flows from the well-preserved summit crater and from flank vents on the SW and SE slopes. The youn... [
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(pyroclastic cone unknown)
An unnamed isolated basaltic-andesite cinder cone is located between the Corrida de Cori range on the Chile/Argentina border and the Salar Río Grande in Argentina.
The cone sits on top of Miocene ignimbrites and lava flows. It has erupted relatively fluid blocky lava flows ... [
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(subglacial volcano 1500 m / 4,921 ft)
Viedma is a volcano underneath the Patagonian Icefield NW of Viedma Lake in southern Argentinia. Its existence was confirmed during the eruption in 1988. ONly parts of the volcano rise above the glaciers. [
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Argentina, San Juan Province on Jan, 15, 1944. It resulted in 8,000 fatalities and an unknown number of injured people. This was the 9th worst quake in Argentina during recorded history.
This was also the most damaging earthquake that occurred in this time: total economic losses were estimated to the equivalent of $100 million US Dollars.
An unknown number houses and other buildings were destroyed and an unknown number damaged.
