Palpana
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Palpana (from , ram) is a volcano in the Andes of Chile. It has a summit elevation of .
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Palpana
- Mountain.photo
- Ollagüe Summit(Jan2012).jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- The volcano is visible in the upper center portion of the photo, which was taken from the summit of Ollagüe volcano. Salar de Ascotán (left) and Salar de Carcote (right) are also visible in the photo.
- Mountain.parent_peak
- Aucanquilcha
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 1947
- Mountain.listing
- Ultra
- Mountain.map
- Chile
- Mountain.map_size
- 150
- Mountain.location
- Chile
- Mountain.range
- Andes
- Mountain.first_ascent
- 13 October 1977 - José Ambrus and Jaime Sepúlveda (Chile)
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Palpana (from , ram) is a volcano in the Andes of Chile. It has a summit elevation of .
It is part of the dividing range between Upper Loa River basin and Salar de Ascotán basin. Together with Inacaliri and Azufre, it forms a long volcanic chain constructed along the Inacaliri lineament. The volcano rises above an ignimbrite plain that in the area reaches an altitude of and forms a chain of volcanoes with Inacaliri.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Palpana” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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