Callaqui

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Callaqui

El Barco Lake
Elevation 3,164 metres (10,381 ft)
Location Chile
Range Andes
Coordinates 37°55′0″S 71°27′0″W / -37.91667, -71.45Coordinates: 37°55′0″S 71°27′0″W / -37.91667, -71.45
Type Stratovolcano
Last eruption 1980

Callaqui is a stratovolcano located in the Bío-Bío Region of Chile. It is a large ice-capped, basaltic-andesite volcano which is elongated in the northeast-southwest direction, due to its construction along an 11 km (7 mi) long fissure. Numerous cinder cones and lava flows have erupted from vents along this linear fissure. Most of the activity at Callaqui has been fumarolic. Minor eruptions were reported 1751, 1864, and 1937, and the latest eruption was a small phreatic eruption in 1980.

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