Planchón-Peteroa
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Planchón-Peteroa is a complex volcano extending in a north–south direction along the border between Argentina and Chile. It consists of volcanoes of various ages with several overlapping calderas. Those include Volcán Planchón, Volcán Peteroa and Volcán Azufre.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Planchón-Peteroa
- Mountain.photo
- Planchon Peteroa.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Peteroa as seen from the summit of Planchón.
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 4107
- Mountain.location
- Argentina-Chile
- Mountain.range
- Andes
- Mountain.map
- Argentina
- Mountain.relief
- 1
- Mountain.map_size
- 230
- Mountain.label_position
- right
- Mountain.type
- Complex volcano
- Mountain.last_eruption
- October 2025
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- September 6, 2010 eruption
- See also
- References
Planchón-Peteroa is a complex volcano extending in a north–south direction along the border between Argentina and Chile. It consists of volcanoes of various ages with several overlapping calderas. Those include Volcán Planchón, Volcán Peteroa and Volcán Azufre.
A partial collapse of the complex about 11,500 years ago produced a major debris avalanche, which followed the course of the Teno River until reaching the Chile Central Valley.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Planchón-Peteroa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations