Key facts
- Elevation
- 1,122 m (3,681 ft)
- Location
- 10 kilometres (6 mi) northeast of Chaitén , Palena Province , Los Lagos Region , Chile
- Parent range
- Andes
- Mountain type
- Caldera
- Volcanic belt
- South Volcanic Zone
- Last eruption
- 2008 to 2011
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- volcano
- Country
- Chile
- Located in
- Palena Province
- Continent
- Americas
- Elevation
- 1122
- Material used
- rhyolite
- Image
- Chaiten Volcano NASA.jpg
Show 5 more facts
- time period
- Holocene
- different from
- Mount Fitz Roy
- Commons category
- Chaitén volcano
- volcano observatory
- Southern Andean Volcano Observatory
- mountain range
- Patagonian Andes
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Encyclopedic overview
Image of the rhyolitic lava dome of Chaitén Volcano during its 2008–2010 eruption.
Chaitén is a volcanic caldera 3 kilometres (2 mi) in diameter, 17 kilometres (11 mi) west of the elongated ice-capped Michinmahuida volcano and 10 kilometres (6 mi) northeast of the town of Chaitén, near the Gulf of Corcovado in southern Chile. The most recent eruptive phase of the volcano erupted on 2008. Originally, radiocarbon dating of older tephra from the volcano suggested that its last previous eruption was in 7420 BC ± 75 years. However, recent studies have found that the volcano is more active than thought. According to the Global Volcanism Program, its last eruption was in 2011.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chaitén” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.