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Mount Hiuchigatake

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Also known as Hiuchiga Take

Mount Hiuchi, also Hiuchigatake () is a stratovolcano in Oze National Park, and located in Hinoemata Village, Minami-Aizu gun, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. This is the highest mountain in Tōhoku region. The volcano rises in the north of . It is one of the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains.

Key facts

Mountain.name
Mount Hiuchi
Mountain.other_name
Hiuchigatake
Mountain.photo
Hiuchigatake 080923 4.JPG
Mountain.elevation_m
2356
Mountain.location
Honshu, Japan
Mountain.map
Japan#Japan Fukushima Prefecture
Mountain.type
Stratovolcano
Mountain.age
Quaternary
Mountain.volcanic_arc
Northeastern Japan Arc
Mountain.last_eruption
July 1544

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

7 sections
Contents
  • Morphology
  • Historic eruptions
  • 1544 eruptions
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

Mount Hiuchi, also Hiuchigatake () is a stratovolcano in Oze National Park, and located in Hinoemata Village, Minami-Aizu gun, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. This is the highest mountain in Tōhoku region. The volcano rises in the north of . It is one of the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains.

==Morphology==

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

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