Sollipulli
Sign in to saveSollipulli (; in the Mapuche language) is an ice-filled volcanic caldera and volcanic complex, which lies southeast of the small town of Melipeuco in the La Araucanía Region, Chile. It is part of the Southern Volcanic Zone of the Andes, one of the four volcanic belts in the Andes chain.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Sollipulli
- Mountain.photo
- Nevados de Sollipulli.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Aerial photograph of volcan Sollipulli, looking southeast. The dark red feature on the side of Sollipulli is the cinder cone called Chufquen which formed during the most recent eruption, about 700 years ago.
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 2282
- Mountain.listing
- List of volcanoes in Chile
- Mountain.location
- Southern Chile
- Mountain.range
- Andes
- Mountain.map
- Chile
- Mountain.map_caption
- Location of Sollipulliin Chile
- Mountain.type
- Caldera
- Mountain.volcanic_zone
- Southern Volcanic Zone
- Mountain.last_eruption
- 1240 ± 50 years
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- volcano
- Country
- Chile
- Located in
- Cautín Province
- Elevation
- 2282
- Material used
- dacite
- Image
- Nevados de Sollipulli.jpg
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- Commons category
- Sollipulli
- volcano observatory
- Southern Andean Volcano Observatory
- mountain range
- Patagonian Andes
- time period
- Pleistocene
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Geomorphology and geography
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- Glaciers
- Geology
- Composition
- Precipitation and vegetation
- Eruption history
- Hazards
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- External links
Sollipulli (; in the Mapuche language) is an ice-filled volcanic caldera and volcanic complex, which lies southeast of the small town of Melipeuco in the La Araucanía Region, Chile. It is part of the Southern Volcanic Zone of the Andes, one of the four volcanic belts in the Andes chain.
The volcano has evolved in close contact with glacial ice. It differs from many calderas in that Sollipulli appears to have collapsed in a non-explosive manner. The age of collapse is not yet known, but it is presently filled with ice to thicknesses of . The ice drains through two glaciers in the west and the north of the caldera. Sollipulli has developed on a basement formed by Mesozoic and Cenozoic geological formations.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sollipulli” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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