Paruma
Sign in to saveParuma is a stratovolcano that lies on the border of Bolivia and Chile. It is part of a ridge that contains several stratovolcanos. Paruma lies at the eastern end of the ridge, with Olca to its west. The older volcano Paruma lies to east of Paruma. Paruma has clearly been active during the Holocene, with many morphologically young lava flows on its flanks. It also has persistent fumaroles. One lava flow in particular extends for 7 kilometres to the south-east of the peak. Historical activity along the ridge has been confined to one eruption from 1865 to 1867, the character of which is not
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Vinony's link graph records 13 inbound references to Paruma, and connects out to Chile, Bolivia and Andes.
The entry is geolocated on the map in mountain, across 3 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Bolivia–Chile border, Holocene stratovolcanoes and International mountains of South America.
Vinony links it to 19 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Paruma
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 5,420
- Mountain.location
- Bolivia-Chile
- Mountain.range
- Andes
- Mountain.map
- Bolivia
- Mountain.relief
- 1
- Mountain.map_size
- 230
- Mountain.label_position
- right
- Mountain.type
- Stratovolcano
- Mountain.last_eruption
- 1867
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain
- Country
- Bolivia
- Located in
- Nor Lípez Province
- Continent
- Americas
- Elevation
- 5420
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- mountain range
- Cordillera Occidental
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Encyclopedic overview
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Paruma is a stratovolcano that lies on the border of Bolivia and Chile. It is part of a ridge that contains several stratovolcanos. Paruma lies at the eastern end of the ridge, with Olca to its west. The older volcano Paruma lies to east of Paruma. Paruma has clearly been active during the Holocene, with many morphologically young lava flows on its flanks. It also has persistent fumaroles. One lava flow in particular extends for 7 kilometres to the south-east of the peak. Historical activity along the ridge has been confined to one eruption from 1865 to 1867, the character of which is not precisely known.
==Sources==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Paruma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
3 mapped locations