Incahuasi
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Incahuasi (; possibly from Quechua: inka Inca, wasi house) is a volcanic mountain in the Andes of South America. It lies on the border of the Catamarca Province of Argentina and the Atacama Region of Chile. Incahuasi has a summit elevation of above sea level.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Incahuasi
- Mountain.photo
- Volcan Incahuasi.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Incahuasi volcano as seen from route 60, Fiambala, Argentina
- Mountain.map
- Argentina
- Mountain.map_caption
- Location in Argentina, on the border with Chile
- Mountain.location
- Catamarca, Argentina -Atacama, Chile
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 6621 or 6638
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 1518
- Mountain.listing
- Ultra
- Mountain.range
- Andes
- Mountain.type
- stratovolcanoes and caldera
- Mountain.last_eruption
- Unknown
- Mountain.first_ascent
- 1913 by Walther Penck
- Mountain.map_size
- 200
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Wikidata facts
- Elevation
- 6621
- Image
- Miscanti Lagoon near San Pedro de Atacama (July 2008).jpg
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- Incahuasi
- topographic prominence
- 1518
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12 sectionsContents
- Geography and geology
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- Local
- Composition
- Climate
- Eruption history
- Climbing history
- Archaeology
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Incahuasi (; possibly from Quechua: inka Inca, wasi house) is a volcanic mountain in the Andes of South America. It lies on the border of the Catamarca Province of Argentina and the Atacama Region of Chile. Incahuasi has a summit elevation of above sea level.
The volcano consists of a caldera and two stratovolcanoes. Four pyroclastic cones located to the northeast have produced basalt-andesite lava flows that cover an area of .
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2 mapped locations