Tunupa volcano
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Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Tunupa
- Mountain.photo
- Volcán Tunupa & Salar de Uyuni.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Tunupa and Salar de Uyuni.
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 5321
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 1601
- Mountain.map
- Bolivia
- Mountain.map_caption
- Bolivia
- Mountain.map_size
- 250
- Mountain.listing
- Ultra
- Mountain.location
- Potosí Department, Bolivia
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Tunupa is a dormant volcano in the Potosí Department of southwestern Bolivia.
It stands on the northern side of the Salar de Uyuni at an elevation of on the Bolivian Altiplano. Tunupa was active in the Pleistocene, with most of the volcano constructed by lava flows that erupted between 1.36 and 1.56 million years ago. Later glaciers developed on the mountain.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tunupa volcano” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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