Apagado (Spanish for Extinct, also known as Hualiaque) is a pyroclastic cone with scattered vegetation cover. It has an approximately 400 m (1,312 ft)-wide crater and a base diameter of approximately 2 km (1 mi). The volcano is located in Chile's Los Lagos Region, and lies 13 km (8 mi) west of the Hornopirén Volcano and southwest of Yate Volcano on a peninsula that borders the Reloncaví Estuary, Reloncaví Sound and Gulf of Ancud. Apagado has a nearly intact summit crater.
Apagado (Hualiaque) | |
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![]() The volcano is visible in the lower center of this NASA image. | |
Highest point | |
Elevation | 1,210 m (3,970 ft) |
Coordinates | 41°53′0″S 72°35′0″W / 41.88333°S 72.58333°W |
Geography | |
Location | Los Lagos Region, Chile |
Parent range | Andes |
Geology | |
Age of rock | 2,500 years[1] |
Mountain type | Pyroclastic cone |
Last eruption | 590 BCE |
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Hornopir%C3%A9n_and_hualiaque_or_apagado_volcanoes_chile_x_region.jpg/600px-Hornopir%C3%A9n_and_hualiaque_or_apagado_volcanoes_chile_x_region.jpg)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Global Volcanism Program | Apagado". Smithsonian Institute | Global Volcanism Program. Retrieved 2024-09-10.
External links
edit- SI Google Earth Placemarks - Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program: download placemarks with SI Holocene volcano-data.