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Tunupa is a dormant volcano in the Potosí Department of southwestern Bolivia.

Key facts

Mountain.name
Tunupa
Mountain.photo
Volcán Tunupa & Salar de Uyuni.jpg
Mountain.photo_caption
Tunupa and Salar de Uyuni.
Mountain.elevation_m
5321
Mountain.prominence_m
1601
Mountain.map
Bolivia
Mountain.map_caption
Bolivia
Mountain.map_size
250
Mountain.listing
Ultra
Mountain.location
Potosí Department, Bolivia

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
mountain
Country
Bolivia
Continent
Americas
Elevation
5432
Image
Coquesa Tunupa 2013.jpg
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Commons category
Tunupa
topographic prominence
1601
mountain range
Andes
time period
Miocene
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Encyclopedic overview

10 sections
Contents
  • Geography and geomorphology
  • Geology
  • Composition
  • Climate
  • Eruption history
  • Mythology
  • See also
  • References
  • Sources
  • External links

Tunupa is a dormant volcano in the Potosí Department of southwestern Bolivia.

It stands on the northern side of the Salar de Uyuni at an elevation of on the Bolivian Altiplano. Tunupa was active in the Pleistocene, with most of the volcano constructed by lava flows that erupted between 1.36 and 1.56 million years ago. Later glaciers developed on the mountain.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tunupa volcano” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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