Coropuna
Sign in to saveCoropuna 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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38 sectionsContents
- 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
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, peat bogs, grasses and also agricultural areas and pastures.
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.