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Cerro Overo

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Mountain type
  
Maar

Elevation
  
4,555 m

Parent range
  
Andes

Last eruption
  
Unknown

Mountain range
  
Andes

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El Negrillar, Colachi, Cordón de Puntas Negras, Cerro del León, Caichinque

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Cerro Overo is a maar lying at the foot of Chiliques volcano and close to Laguna Lejía, in the Antofagasta Region of northern Chile over ignimbrites of Miocene-Pliocene age. It is the result of a phreatomagmatic eruption, its maximum diameter is 600 metres (2,000 ft) and its depth is 80 metres (260 ft). The maar formed in postglacial times and erupted basalts that originated in the deep crust, with no magma chamber. The lavas are of lower crustal provenience and are among the least evolved of northern Chile.

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Map of Cerro Overo, San Pedro de Atacama, Antofagasta Region, Chile

Cerro overo capilla del monte


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Cerro Overo Wikipedia