Coropuna

Coropuna is a dormant compound volcano located in the Andes mountains of southeast-central Peru. The upper reaches of Coropuna consist of several perennially snowbound conical summits, lending it the name Nevado Coropuna in Spanish. The complex extends over an area of and its highest summit reaches an altitude of above sea level. This makes the Coropuna complex the third-highest of Peru. Its thick ice cap is the most extensive in Earth's tropical zone, with several outlet glaciers stretching out to lower altitudes. Below an elevation of , there are various vegetation belts which include trees,

Key facts

Mountain.name: Coropuna
Mountain.other_name: Nevado Coropuna
Mountain.etymology: Etymology
Mountain.translation: "Golden mountain", "cold, snowy" or "cut off at the top"
Mountain.photo: Coropuna Volcano.jpg
Mountain.photo_alt: A snow-covered mountain with two hump-like summits rising above an unvegetated landscape with a lake
Mountain.map: Peru
Mountain.map_alt: A topographic map of Peru within South America
Mountain.elevation_m: 6377
Mountain.range: Cordillera Occidental, Peruvian Andes
Mountain.type: Stratovolcano complex
Mountain.geology: Geology
Mountain.volcanic_belt: Andean Volcanic Belt
Mountain.last_eruption: 1,100 ± 100 or 700 ± 200 years ago
Mountain.first_ascent: possibly prehistoric

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Elevation: 6425
Image: Coropuna Volcano.jpg

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Name and etymology
Geography and geomorphology
Regional
Local
General outline
Lakes, rivers and groundwater
Surrounding terrain
Elevation and size
Ice cap
Glaciers and periglacial phenomena
Recent area and retreat
Glacial history
Last glacial maximum
Other glacial periods
Importance as a source of water
Geology
Regional setting
Basement
Faults and lineaments
Composition
Eruption history
Holocene
Present day status
Hazards and monitoring
Climate
Precipitation
Temperature
Vegetation, fauna and agriculture
Archaeology and religious importance
Inca times
Maucallacta and Acchaymarca
Mythology, religion and legends
Climbing
Notes
References
Sources
Further reading
External links

The Coropuna complex consists of several stratovolcanoes. These are composed chiefly of ignimbrites and lava flows on a basement formed by Middle Miocene ignimbrites and lava flows. The Coropuna complex has been active for at least five million years, with the bulk of the current cone having been formed during the Quaternary. Coropuna has had two or three Holocene eruptions and either or ago which generated lava flows, plus an additional eruption which may have taken place some 6,000 years ago. Current activity occurs exclusively in the form of hot springs.