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San Pedro is located in northern Chile, in the Ollagüe commune, El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region; [4] the border to Bolivia is 35 kilometres (22 mi) away. [5] The whole region is remote and thinly populated; [6] towns in the area include Ascotán, Cupo, Inacaliri and Paniri; [7] and the San Pedro railway station lies southwest of the volcano. [8]
Cerro Chao is a lava flow complex associated with the Cerro del León volcano in the Andes. It is the largest known Quaternary silicic volcano body and part of the most recent phase of activity in the Altiplano–Puna volcanic complex. Cerro Chao formed over the course of three eruptions preceded by a pyroclastic stage.
The landscape around the volcano consists of basins separated by mountain chains. [36] At the northeastern foot of Licancabur is Laguna Verde. [37] The mountain is part of the drainage divide between the Altiplano and the Salar de Atacama. [38] Southwest of Licancabur are the Vilama and San Pedro rivers, which flow to San Pedro de Atacama. [39]
Volcán San Pedro (or Las Yeguas) is a 3,020-metre (9,908 ft) stratovolcano on the shores of Lago de Atitlán, in the Sololá Department of southern Guatemala. It is part of the mountain range of the Sierra Madre. At the base of the volcano is the village of San Pedro La Laguna.
Quality image of San Pedro volcano (left) and San Pablo volcano (right) in northern Chile. San Pedro is number 19 on Wikipedia's list of tallest volcanoes by elevation above sea level. It has two adjacent cones, the old and the new. The old cone was active over 100,000 years ago and the new cone's last large eruption was around 10,000 years ago ...
The volcano is part of the San Pedro-Linzor lineament, a 65 kilometres (40 mi) long volcanic chain that extends northwest-southeastward. It was constructed on top the Toconce and Sifon Ignimbrites. The alignment was active during the late Pleistocene–Holocene and contains San Pedro-San Pablo–Paniri–Cerro del León–Toconce–Linzor. [2]
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Paniri (Aymara for "he who comes, visits" [4]) is a stratovolcano located in El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile, and near the border with Bolivia.To its northwest lie the twin volcanoes San Pedro and San Pablo, and to its southeast lies Cerro del León, from which it is separated by the huge Chao lava dome.