Tacora
Sign in to saveTacora is a stratovolcano located in the Andes of the Arica y Parinacota Region of Chile. Near the border with Peru, it is one of the northernmost volcanoes of Chile. It is part of the Central Volcanic Zone in Chile, one of the four volcanic belts of the Andes. The Central Volcanic Zone has several of the highest volcanoes in the world. Tacora itself is a stratovolcano with a caldera and a crater. The youngest radiometric age is 50,000 years ago and it is heavily eroded by glacial activity.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Tacora
- Mountain.photo
- Tacora.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Tacora in 2004
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 5980
- Mountain.parent_peak
- Nevado Sajama
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 1721
- Mountain.listing
- Ultra
- Mountain.location
- Chile
- Mountain.map
- Chile
- Mountain.map_size
- 180
- Mountain.label_position
- bottom
- Mountain.range
- Andes
- Mountain.type
- Stratovolcano
- Mountain.volcanic_zone
- Central Volcanic Zone
- Mountain.last_eruption
- Unknown
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- stratovolcano
- Country
- Chile
- Located in
- General Lagos
- Continent
- Americas
- Elevation
- 5960
- Material used
- andesite
- Image
- Tacora.jpg
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- topographic prominence
- 1700
- Commons category
- Tacora (volcano)
- mountain range
- Cordillera Occidental
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Geography and geomorphology
- Fumaroles
- Geology
- Local
- Composition
- Eruptive history
- Mining and sulfur
- Mythology
- Botanics
- See also
- References
- Sources
- External links
Tacora is a stratovolcano located in the Andes of the Arica y Parinacota Region of Chile. Near the border with Peru, it is one of the northernmost volcanoes of Chile. It is part of the Central Volcanic Zone in Chile, one of the four volcanic belts of the Andes. The Central Volcanic Zone has several of the highest volcanoes in the world. Tacora itself is a stratovolcano with a caldera and a crater. The youngest radiometric age is 50,000 years ago and it is heavily eroded by glacial activity.
Volcanism in the Central Volcanic Zone results from the subduction of the Nazca Plate beneath the South America Plate. Tacora is constructed on the so-called "Arica Altiplano" and is part of a northsouth alignment of volcanoes. Tacora itself has uncertain reports of historical eruptions and there are active fumaroles.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tacora” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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