Sahand
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The entry is geolocated on the map in mountain_scale, across 3 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Landforms of East Azerbaijan province, Miocene stratovolcanoes and Mountaineering in Iran.
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Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Sahand
- Mountain.photo
- Mount-Sahand.jpg
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 3707
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 1826
- Mountain.map
- Iran
- Mountain.relief
- 1
- Mountain.map_caption
- Iran
- Mountain.map_size
- 270
- Mountain.listing
- Ultra
- Mountain.location
- East Azarbaijan, Iran
- Mountain.type
- Stratovolcano
- Mountain.age
- 12–0.14 million years
- Mountain.last_eruption
- Unknown
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Wikidata facts
- Elevation
- 3710
- Image
- Mount-Sahand.jpg
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- Mount Sahand
- topographic prominence
- 1826
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Encyclopedic overview
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Sahand (), is a massive, heavily eroded stratovolcano in East Azerbaijan Province, northwestern Iran. At , it is the highest mountain in the province of East Azerbaijan.
Sahand is one of the highest mountains in Iranian Azerbaijan, in addition to being an important dormant volcano in the country. The Sahand mountains are directly south of Tabriz, the highest peak of which is Kamal at an elevation of . Approximately 17 peaks can be accounted for as being over in height. Due to the presence of a variety of flora and fauna, the Sahand mountains are known as the bride of mountains in Iran. Sahand is made chiefly of dacite and associated felsic rocks.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sahand” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
3 mapped locations