Aracar
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Aracar is a large conical stratovolcano in northwestern Argentina, just east of the Chilean border. It has a main summit crater about in diameter and sometimes contains crater lakes and a secondary crater. The volcano has formed, starting during the Pliocene, on top of a lava platform and an older basement. Constructed on a base with an altitude of , it covers a surface area of and has a volume of . The only observed volcanic activity was a possible steam or ash plume on March 28, 1993, seen from the village of Tolar Grande about southeast of the volcano, but with no evidence of deformation of
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Aracar
- Mountain.photo
- Aracar.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Aracar from the Space Shuttle, January 2003
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 6095
- Mountain.parent_peak
- Ojos del Salado
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 1791
- Mountain.listing
- Ultra
- Mountain.location
- Argentina
- Mountain.range
- Andes
- Mountain.map
- Argentina
- Mountain.relief
- 1
- Mountain.map_size
- 230
- Mountain.label_position
- right
- Mountain.type
- Stratovolcano
- Mountain.age
- Pliocene
- Mountain.last_eruption
- 1993
- Mountain.first_ascent
- 04/01/1958 - Yosko Cvitanic (Yugoslavia), Gustav Lanstchner and Emo Henrich (Austria)
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Wikidata facts
- Elevation
- 6082
- Image
- Aracar.jpg
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- Aracar
- topographic prominence
- 1791
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Aracar is a large conical stratovolcano in northwestern Argentina, just east of the Chilean border. It has a main summit crater about in diameter and sometimes contains crater lakes and a secondary crater. The volcano has formed, starting during the Pliocene, on top of a lava platform and an older basement. Constructed on a base with an altitude of , it covers a surface area of and has a volume of . The only observed volcanic activity was a possible steam or ash plume on March 28, 1993, seen from the village of Tolar Grande about southeast of the volcano, but with no evidence of deformation of the volcano from satellite observations. Inca archeological sites are found on the volcano.
== Geology == Aracar is located in the Salta province, north of the Salar de Taca Taca and Arizaro and east of the Salar de Incahuasi and the Sierra de Taca Taca, close to the Chilean border. The name is also spelled Arakar. Volcanoes in the territory rise above the endorheic sinks and landscape. Cerro Arizaro (9.0 ± 1.3 mya) is another volcano southeast of Aracar.
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