Arintica
| Arintica | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Arintica (left) and Pukintika (right) as seen from Polloquere hot springs area. | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 5,597 m (18,363 ft) [1] |
| Coordinates | 18°44′50″S 69°04′00″W / 18.74722°S 69.06667°W [1] |
| Geography | |
| Location | Chile |
| Parent range | Andes |
| Geology | |
| Mountain type | Stratovolcano |
| Last eruption | Unknown |
Arintica is a stratovolcano located in Arica y Parinacota Region of Chile, near the border with Bolivia. It lies north of the Salar de Surire. The volcano has a main summit in the north, a slightly shorter southern summit and a subsidiary peak in the west. A glacier valley lies between the summits.[2]:325 The volcano was constructed in two phases and postglacial lava flows have been found by Landsat imagery, but they are unsampled.[3] A belt of Polylepis woods surrounds the volcano.[2]:322
See also
References
- 1 2 Shanaka L. De Silva; Peter William Francis (1 January 1991). Volcanoes of the Central Andes. Springer-Verlag. p. 21. ISBN 978-3-540-53706-9.
- 1 2 Carl Troll (1985). Tagebücher der Reisen in Bolivien 1926/1927 (in German). F. Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden.
- ↑ Klaus-Joachim Reutter; Ekkehard Scheuber; Peter Wigger (6 December 2012). Tectonics of the Southern Central Andes: Structure and Evolution of an Active Continental Margin. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 82. ISBN 978-3-642-77353-2.
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