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Antofagasta de la Sierra

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Mountain type
  
Scoria cones

Elevation
  
4,000 m

Local time
  
Sunday 2:34 PM

Parent range
  
Andes

Last eruption
  
Unknown

Province
  
Catamarca Province

Age of rock
  
Holocene

Mountain range
  
Cordillera Blanca, Andes

Antofagasta de la Sierra

Weather
  
16°C, Wind SW at 6 km/h, 45% Humidity

Similar
  
Antofalla, Galán, Peinado, Incahuasi, Monte Pissis

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Antofagasta de la Sierra is a volcanic field in Argentina. The main type of volcanic edifice in the area are scoria cones. The area contains the youngest vents in the whole of the Puna region of Argentina. It is considered by many authors that the cones in the field are only a few thousand years old, thus putting them firmly into the Holocene period. The field lies between the Salar de Antofalla volcanic field and the Cerro Galán caldera. The caldera lies west of Antofagasta de la Sierra and the other volcanic field to the east. The other prominent volcanic feature of the region, the peak Beltran, lies to the south-west of the field.

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Map of Antofagasta de la Sierra, Catamarca Province, Argentina

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References

Antofagasta de la Sierra Wikipedia