Apagado facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Apagado (Hualiaque) |
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The volcano is visible in the lower center of this NASA image.
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| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 1,210 m (3,970 ft) |
| Geography | |
| Location | Los Lagos Region, Chile |
| Parent range | Andes |
| Geology | |
| Mountain type | Pyroclastic cone |
| Last eruption | 590 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
In Spanish: Apagado (volcán) para niños
- List of volcanoes in Chile
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