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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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.