Acotango

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Acotango

Chungará Lake
Elevation 6,052 metres (19,856 ft)
Location Bolivia-Chile
Range Andes
Coordinates 18°22′56″S 69°02′52″W / -18.38222, -69.04778Coordinates: 18°22′56″S 69°02′52″W / -18.38222, -69.04778
Type Stratovolcano
Last eruption Unknown
Easiest route snow/ice climb

Acotango (el. 6,052 m/19,856 ft.) is the middle and highest of a group of stratovolcanoes straddling the border of Bolivia and Chile. The group is known as Nevados de Quimsachata and also contains the peaks of Humarata and Cerro Capurata. The group lies along a north-south alignment. The volcano is heavily eroded, but a lava flow on its northern flank is morphologically young, suggesting Acotango had been active in the Holocene.

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