Apagado

Apagado (Hualiaque)
The volcano is visible in the lower center of this NASA image.
Highest point
Elevation1,210 m (3,970 ft)
Coordinates41°53′0″S 72°35′0″W / 41.88333°S 72.58333°W / -41.88333; -72.58333
Geography
LocationLos Lagos Region, Chile
Parent rangeAndes
Geology
Rock age2,500 years[1]
Mountain typePyroclastic cone
Last eruption590 BCE

Apagado (Spanish for Extinct, also known as Hualiaque) is a pyroclastic cone with scattered vegetation cover. It has an approximately 400 m (1,312 ft)-wide crater and a base diameter of approximately 2 km (1 mi). The volcano is located in Chile's Los Lagos Region, and lies 13 km (8 mi) west of the Hornopirén Volcano and southwest of Yate Volcano on a peninsula that borders the Reloncaví Estuary, Reloncaví Sound and Gulf of Ancud. Apagado has a nearly intact summit crater.

Hornopirén and Apagado. Hornopirén is the wide, cone-shaped mountain with flow patterns in the snow on its summit, while Apagado is the small, brownish cone with the wide crater on the bottom right hand side. It has a curved snow border on the left edge of its crater rim.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Global Volcanism Program | Apagado". Smithsonian Institution | Global Volcanism Program. Retrieved 2024-09-10.


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