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World top 10 highest active Volcanoes
San Pedro volcano is a twin volcano with 2
peaks, San Pedro (the western summit) and the older sister volcano San Pablo
(6092 m) in the east
World top 10 highest active Volcanoes
Saturday, September 16, 2017
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All the 10 highest active volcanoes in the world are all located on South America in the Central Andes of Northern Chile, Argentina, and Peru-
1. Ojos del Salado
volcano
Ojos del Salado volcano (Credit) |
➽6887 m / 22,595 ft
➽Chile / Argentina
➽Nevados Ojos del Salado is the world's highest active
volcano. It is located on the Chile/Argentina border, about 20 km south of the
road that crosses Argentina-CHile border at Paso de San Francisco.
2. Llullaillaco volcano
Llullaillaco volcano credit |
➽6739 m / 22,109 ft
➽Chile / Argentina
➽Llullaillaco is the world's highest historically active
volcano. It is on the border between Chile and Argentina and belongs to the
Puna de Atacama
3. Tipas volcano
Tipas volcano (pic credit) |
➽6660 m / 21,850 ft
➽Argentinia
➽Cerro Tipas (also known as Cerro Walter Penk) volcano is a
massive volcanic complex in NW Argentina located immediately SSW of its better
known neighbor, 6887-m-high Nevados Ojos del Salado
4. Cerro el Condor volcano
Cerro el Condor volcano (fig credit) |
➽6532 m / 21,430 ft
➽Argentinia
➽Cerro el Cóndor is a large stratovolcano located in NW
Argentina. it is one of the few larger volcanoes which are completely inside
Argentina.
5. Coropuna volcano
Coropuna volcano |
➽6377 m / 20,922 ft
➽Peru
➽Nevado Coropuna volcano in southern Peru is the largest and
highest active volcano in Peru. It rises majestically 4500 m from the
surrounding terrain and forms an 10x20 km E-W elongated complex.
6. Parinacota volcano
Parinacota volcano |
➽6348 m / 20,827 ft
➽Chile
➽Volcán Parinacota volcano is a symmetrical young
stratovolcano in northern Chile near the border with Bolivia. Along with older
Pomerape (6222 m) volcano 4 km to the NE it forms the Nevados de Payachata
volcanic group.
7. Chimborazo volcano
Chimborazo volcano |
➽6310 m / 20,702 ft
➽Ecuador
➽Chimborazo volcano is Ecuador's highest active volcano and
the highest in the Northern Andean Volcanic Zone. The massive, ice-capped
stratovolcano lies at the southwest end of the main Ecuadorian volcanic arc,
the so-called "Avenida de los Volcanes" ("Avenue of
Volcanoes") and is located ca. 150 km SSW of Quito and 28 km NW of the
town of Riobamba.
8. Pular volcano
Pular volcano |
➽6233 m / 20,449 ft
➽Chile
➽Pular is a stratovolcano in the Antofagasta Region of
northern Chile, NW of the Salar de Pular and 15 km from the border with
Argentina. The volcano belongs to a 12-km long chain of several vents and
volcanoes, which have erupted extensive lava flows.
9. Aucanquilcha volcano
Aucanquilcha volcano |
➽6176 m / 20,262 ft
➽Aucanquilcha is a massive stratovolcano in the Central
Volcanic Zone of the Andes in northern Chile. Volcán Aucanquilcha (also known
as Cerro Aucancquilche) is the youngest of about 20 volcanoes and cones that
form the Aucanquilcha Volcanic Cluster and one the largest volcanoes of
northern Chile.
10. San Pedro volcano
San Pedro volcano |
➽6145 m / 20,161 ft
➽San Pedro volcano in the Atacama desert of northern Chile is
one of the highest active volcanoes in the world.
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