Mount Pico
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stratovolcano in the Azores and the highest mountain of Portugal
Key facts
- Elevation
- 2,351 m (7,713 ft)
- Prominence
- 2,351 m (7,713 ft)
- Parent peak
- None - HP Pico
- Listing
- Country high point , Ultra
- Location
- Pico Island , Azores
- Parent range
- Mid-Atlantic Ridge
- Rock age
- < 230,000 Years
- Mountain type
- Stratovolcano
- Last eruption
- July to December 1720
- Easiest route
- Scramble, Class 2; YDS Grade II
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- volcano
- Official name
- Montanha do Pico
- Country
- Portugal
- Located in
- Azores
- Area
- 13.41
- Elevation
- 2351
- Image
- Ilha do Pico vista da Fajã Grande, Calheta, ilha de São Jorge, Açores, Portugal.JPG
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- mountain range
- Mid-Atlantic Ridge
- Commons category
- Pico
- topographic prominence
- 2351
- located in/on physical feature
- Pico Island
- native label
- Montanha do Pico
- time period
- Pleistocene
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Encyclopedic overview
Mount Pico (Portuguese: Montanha do Pico) is a currently dormant stratovolcano located on Pico Island, in the mid-Atlantic archipelago of the Azores. It is the highest mountain in Portugal, at 2,351 metres (7,713 ft) above sea level, and is one of the highest Atlantic mountains; it is more than twice the elevation of any other peak in the Azores. It has been a designated nature reserve since 1972.
Eruptive history
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mount Pico” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.