Purico Complex

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Purico Complex

ASTE with Cerro El Chascón (right).
Elevation 5,703 metres (18,711 ft)
Location Chile
Coordinates 23°00′S 67°45′W / -23, -67.75Coordinates: 23°00′S 67°45′W / -23, -67.75
Type Pyroclastic shield
Age of rock Holocene
Last eruption Unknown

The Purico Complex is a pyroclastic shield, located in northern Chile, immediately south of the border between Bolivia and Chile.

[edit] Subsidiary features

  • Stratovolcanoes
    • Cerros de Macón - 5,130 m
    • Cerro Toco - 5,604 m
  • Maar
    • Alitar - 5,346 m
  • Lava domes
    • Cerro Agua Amarga - 5,058 m
    • Cerro Áspero - 5,262 m
    • Cerro Chajnantor - 5,639 m
    • Cerro El Chascón - 5,703 m
    • Cerro Negro - 5,016 m
    • Cerro Putas - 5,462 m

[edit] See also

Summit of Cerro Toco (left) and Cerros de Macón (right) from Salar de Atacama area.
Summit of Cerro Toco (left) and Cerros de Macón (right) from Salar de Atacama area.

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