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Coropuna

Estratovolcán · Peru · 6377 m

Nevado Coropuna, Perú's highest and largest volcano, is a massive ice-covered volcanic complex with at least a half dozen summit cones scattered over a 12 x 20 km area. The 6377-m-high summit (left), seen here from the south, is located at the NW end of the complex. Deep, steep-walled canyons surrounding the volcano give it an impressive topographic relief of more than 4000 m over a horizontal distance of 15 km. Several young Holocene lava flows descend the NE, SE, and western flanks.
Nevado Coropuna, Perú's highest and largest volcano, is a massive ice-covered volcanic complex with at least a half dozen summit cones scattered over a 12 x 20 km area. The 6377-m-high summit (left), seen here from the south, is located at the NW end of the complex. Deep, steep-walled canyons surrounding the volcano give it an impressive topographic relief of more than 4000 m over a horizontal distance of 15 km. Several young Holocene lava flows descend the NE, SE, and western flanks. · Foto: Photo by Norm Banks, 1988 (U.S. Geological Survey). · Wikimedia Commons
Tipo
Estratovolcán
País
Peru
Región
South America Volcanic Regions / Central Andean Volcanic Arc
Altitud
6377 m
Coordenadas
-15.520, -72.650
Última erupción
Desconocido
Contexto tectónico
Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
Forma volcánica
Composite
Roca principal
Andesite / Basaltic Andesite
Resumen geológico

Nevado Coropuna is a massive ice-covered volcanic complex with multiple summit cones built over a 12 x 20 km area. The summit of the andesitic-to-dacitic complex is a cone at the NW end, north of a line of E-W-trending cones. Deep, steep-walled, canyons surrounding the volcano have produced topographic relief of more than 4,000 m over a horizontal distance of 15 km. Dark-colored younger lava flows descend the NE, SE, and W flanks, but the age of the most recent eruptions are not known. Solfataric activity has been reported.

Resumen de Wikipedia

El Coropuna es un complejo estratovolcánico de aproximadamente 1000 km² de la cordillera Ampato de los Andes, al sur de Perú, localizado en el distrito de Viraco, provincia de Castilla y en el distrito de Salamanca (Condesuyos), provincia de Condesuyos del departamento de Arequipa. Con una altitud de 6425 m s. n. m., es el volcán más alto de Perú y la tercera mayor elevación del país, después del Huascarán de 6768 m s. n. m. y el Yerupajá de 6634 m s. n. m.

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