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Apagado

Pyroclastic cone · Chile · 1210m

The sparsely vegetated pyroclastic cone at the lower right with a strip of snow on its crater rim is Volcán Apagado, also known as Hualiaque. Seen in an aerial view from the NW with the rugged snow-capped Chilean Andes in the background, it lies in the center of the peninsula between the Gulf of Ancud and the Reloncaví estuary. The pyroclastic cone lies within a 6-km-wide depression breached to the SW. The broad symmetrical Hornopirén volcano, capped by snow fields, lies to the east of Apagado at the left center.
The sparsely vegetated pyroclastic cone at the lower right with a strip of snow on its crater rim is Volcán Apagado, also known as Hualiaque. Seen in an aerial view from the NW with the rugged snow-capped Chilean Andes in the background, it lies in the center of the peninsula between the Gulf of Ancud and the Reloncaví estuary. The pyroclastic cone lies within a 6-km-wide depression breached to the SW. The broad symmetrical Hornopirén volcano, capped by snow fields, lies to the east of Apagado at the left center. · Photo: Photo by Gerald Prins, 2008 (Wikimedia Commons). · Wikimedia Commons
Type
Pyroclastic cone
Country
Chile
Region
South America / Southern Andean Volcanic Arc
Elevation
1210m
Coordinates
-41.880, -72.580
Last eruption
-590
Tectonic setting
Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
Landform
Minor
Major rock type
Basalt / Picro-Basalt
Geological summary

Volcán Apagado, also known as Hualiaque, is located W of Hornopirén volcano and SW of Yate on the peninsula between the Gulf of Ancud and the Reloncaví estuary. The sparsely vegetated pyroclastic cone contains a well-preserved summit crater; scoria deposits have a calibrated age of about 2,500 years BP. A 6-km-wide depression open to the SW mentioned by González-Ferrán (1995), and a small lava flow passing through that breach, are not prominent on satellite imagery.

Eruption history

Summary (VEI over time)
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590 BCE~590 BCE · 1 eruptions · max VEI 4590 BCE590 BCE589 BCE589 BCE589 BCE

Detailed timeline

  1. 590 BCE (±175 yrs)VEI 4Geological estimate
    BCE 590 – Ongoing

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