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Encyclopedia > Falso Azufre
Falso Azufre
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Elevation: 5,890 m (19,324 feet)
Latitude: 26.80° S (26° 48' 0" S)
Longitude: 68.37° W (68° 22' 0" W)
Location: Argentina, Chile
Type: Complex volcano
Last eruption: Unknown
First ascent:
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Falso Azufre is a volcano complex at the border of Argentina and Chile. Elevation has several related meanings: Geography The elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or possibly some other fixed point). ... Latitude, denoted φ, gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the Equator. ... Map of Earth showing curved lines of longitude Longitude, sometimes denoted λ, describes the location of a place on Earth east or west of a north-south line called the Prime Meridian. ... Argentina is a country in southern South America, situated between the Andes in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east. ... The Republic of Chile is a country in South America occupying a long coastal strip between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean. ... Mountains can be characterized in several ways. ... In climbing, a first ascent (FA) is the first climb to reach the top of a mountain, or the first to follow a particular climbing route. ... Mountaineering is an umbrella term that can variously be used to describe the actions of climbing, hillwalking and scrambling. ... Argentina is a country in southern South America, situated between the Andes in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east. ... The Republic of Chile is a country in South America occupying a long coastal strip between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean. ...


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  • Siebert L, Simkin T (2002-). Volcanoes of the World: an Illustrated Catalog of Holocene Volcanoes and their Eruptions. Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program Digital Information Series, GVP-3, (http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/)



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Global Volcanism Program | Cerro el Cóndor | Summary (152 words)
The compound volcano of Cerro el Cóndor, one of the few large stratovolcanoes located wholly in Argentina, lies within a 2.5-km-wide caldera.
The complex lies to the north of Falso Azufre volcano, which straddles the Chile/Argentina border.
The summit of Cerro el Cóndor contains several ash cones and craters that have been the source of a number of pristine lava flows, one of which traveled 10 km to the west.
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