Pumiri

Pumiri

Pumiri as seen from space
Highest point
Elevation 4,862 m (15,951 ft)
Coordinates 19°00′00″S 68°26′00″W / 19.00000°S 68.43333°W / -19.00000; -68.43333Coordinates: 19°00′00″S 68°26′00″W / 19.00000°S 68.43333°W / -19.00000; -68.43333 [1]
Geography
Pumiri

Location in Bolivia

Location Bolivia,
Oruro Department, Sabaya Province
Parent range Andes

Pumiri is a 4,862-metre-high (15,951 ft) volcano in the Andes that rises 1,062 metres (3,484 ft) above the surrounding terrain.[1] The volcano is located in the Oruro Department, Sabaya Province, northwest of the Salar de Coipasa.[2]

The volcano is formed from two volcanic cones. The younger of which may be of Holocene age and is constructed in the middle of a caldera marked by a semilunar shape.[3]:141 Thanks to heavy erosion, lavas and eruption products are mostly found in peripheral parts of the edifice, while in the central area a deep-grounded crystalline core is exposed.[4]:150 A breach 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) wide and 5.5 kilometres (3.4 mi) long with an azimuth of 139° lies in the volcano, whose summit has a maximum slope of 25°.[1] The volcano forms a lineament with Saxani and Isluga.[5]

The creeks named Qhamiña (Camiña) and on the western side Waywasi (Guayhuase) originate on the volcano.[6]:101 Sulfur deposits on the volcano were exploited by indigenous people.[7]:63

References

  1. 1 2 3 Francis, P. W.; Wells, G. L. (1988). "Landsat Thematic Mapper observations of debris avalanche deposits in the Central Andes". Bulletin of Volcanology 50 (4): 261. doi:10.1007/BF01047488. ISSN 0258-8900.
  2. ↑ Jiménez, J.A.; Cano, M.J. (2008). "Taxonomic assessment of Didymodon pruinosus (Mitt.) R.H. Zander (Bryophyta, Pottiaceae) a poorly known South American taxon". Nova Hedwigia 87 (1): 146. doi:10.1127/0029-5035/2008/0087-0145. ISSN 0029-5035.
  3. ↑ Geologisches Jahrbuch: Allgemeine und regionale Geologie Bundesrepublik Deutschland und Nachbargebiete, Tektonik, Stratigraphie, Paläontologie (in German). E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung in Kommission. 1976.
  4. ↑ Archives de minéralogie (in French). 1934.
  5. ↑ Avila-Salinas, Waldo (1991). "Petrologic and tectonic evolution of the Cenozoic volcanism in the Bolivian western Andes" 265: 248. doi:10.1130/SPE265-p245. ISSN 0072-1077.
  6. ↑ Guillermo Eduardo Billinghurst (1893). La irrigación en Tarapacá (in Spanish). Imprenta y Librería Ercilla.
  7. ↑ Guillermo Eduardo Billinghurst (1886). Estudio sobre la geografía de Tarapacá: (páginas de un libro). (in Spanish). Imprenta de "El Progreso".


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