Acotango
Sign in to saveAcotango is the central and highest of a group of stratovolcanoes straddling the border of Bolivia and Chile. It is high. The group is known as Kimsa Chata and consists of three mountains: Acotango, Umurata () north of it and Capurata () south of it.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Acotango
- Mountain.image
- Volcan Acotango and Cerro Capurata.jpg
- Mountain.image_caption
- The volcanoes Acotango (left) and Capurata (right)
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 6052
- Mountain.parent_peak
- Guallatiri
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 859
- Mountain.listing
- List of mountains in the Andes
- Mountain.location
- Bolivia-Chile
- Mountain.range
- Andes
- Mountain.map
- Bolivia
- Mountain.map_size
- 250
- Mountain.label_position
- right
- Mountain.type
- Stratovolcano
- Mountain.last_eruption
- Pleistocene
- Mountain.first_ascent
- 10/14/1965 (first modern ascent) - Sergio Kunstmann, Pedro Rosende and Claudio Meier (Chile)
- Mountain.easiest_route
- snow/ice climb
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Wikidata facts
- Elevation
- 6052
- Image
- Acotango.jpg
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- Commons category
- Acotango
- topographic isolation
- 6.19
- topographic prominence
- 852
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Acotango is the central and highest of a group of stratovolcanoes straddling the border of Bolivia and Chile. It is high. The group is known as Kimsa Chata and consists of three mountains: Acotango, Umurata () north of it and Capurata () south of it.
The group lies along a north–south alignment. The Acotango volcano is heavily eroded, but a lava flow on its northern flank is morphologically young, suggesting Acotango was active in the Holocene. Later research has suggested that lava flow may be of Pleistocene age. Argon-argon dating has yielded ages of 192,000±8,000 and 241,000±27,000 years on dacites from Acotango. Glacial activity has exposed parts of the inner volcano, which is hydrothermally altered. Glacial moraines lie at an altitude of but a present ice cap is only found past of altitude.
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