Purico Complex

Purico Complex

Infobox Mountain
Name=Purico Complex
Photo=Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment 01.jpg
Caption=ASTE with Cerro El Chascón (right).
Elevation=convert|5703|m|ft|0|lk=on
Location=Chile
Range=
Prominence =
Coordinates = coord|23|00|S|67|45|W|type:mountain_region:CL|display=inline,title
Topographic

Type=Pyroclastic shield
Age=Holocene
Last eruption=Unknown
First ascent=
Easiest route=

The Purico Complex is a pyroclastic shield, located in northern Chile, immediately south of the border between Bolivia and Chile.

ubsidiary features

* Stratovolcanoes
** Cerros de Macón - 5,130 m
** Cerro Toco - 5,604 m
* Maar
** Alitar - 5,346 m
* Lava domes
** Cerro Agua Amarga - 5,058 m
** Cerro Áspero - 5,262 m
** Cerro Chajnantor - 5,639 m
** Cerro El Chascón - 5,703 m
** Cerro Negro - 5,016 m
** Cerro Putas - 5,462 m

ee also

*List of volcanoes in Chile
*San Pedro de Atacama
*Llano de Chajnantor Observatory
*NANTEN2 Observatory
*Licancabur

References

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