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Ojos del Salado

Index Ojos del Salado

Nevado Ojos del Salado is a stratovolcano in the Andes on the Argentina–Chile border and the highest active volcano in the world at. [1]

85 relations: Aconcagua, Altiplano–Puna volcanic complex, Andes, Aron Ralston, Atacama Desert, Áncash Region, Cerro Blanco (volcano), Cerro Bonete, Cerro del Bolsón, Cerro El Cóndor, Cerro El Muerto, Cerro Solo, Chile, Christian Stangl, Copiapó (volcano), Cordillera, Crater lake, David Lim (mountaineer), Ed Darack, Extreme points of Earth, Extreme points of the Americas, Falso Azufre, Geography of Chile, Geology of Chile, Grzegorz Gawlik, H. Adams Carter, Huascarán, Incahuasi, Incapillo, Index of Argentina-related articles, Index of Chile-related articles, Janne Corax, Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, José Antonio Delgado, Laguna Verde (lake of Chile), Lake, Lascar (volcano), Lhagba Pool, Licancabur Lake, List of Chile-related topics, List of elevation extremes by country, List of extreme points of Chile, List of first ascents, List of highest features on Earth, List of highest mountains on Earth, List of mountains by elevation, List of mountains in Argentina, List of mountains in Chile, List of mountains in the Andes, List of peaks by prominence, ..., List of stratovolcanoes, List of Ultras of South America, List of volcanoes by elevation, List of volcanoes in Argentina, List of volcanoes in Chile, Llullaillaco, Los Patos, Manfred Buchroithner, Monte Pissis, Natural regions of Chile, Nevado El Fraile, Nevado San Francisco, Nevado Tres Cruces, Nevado Tres Cruces Central, Nevado Tres Cruces National Park, Norte Chico, Chile, Outline of Chile, Pastillito, Peter E. Baker (geologist), Purico complex, Sairecabur, San Francisco Pass, San Pedro (Chile volcano), Seven Second Summits, Seven Summits, Snow line, Suzuki Jimny, Tipas, Tocomar, Tourism in Chile, Vilama (caldera), Vladas Vitkauskas, Volcanic Seven Summits, Wheelwright caldera, Wildlife of Chile. Expand index (35 more) »

Aconcagua

Aconcagua is the highest mountain outside Asia, at, and the highest point in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Altiplano–Puna volcanic complex

The Altiplano–Puna volcanic complex, also known as APVC, is a complex of volcanic systems in the Puna of the Andes.

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Andes

The Andes or Andean Mountains (Cordillera de los Andes) are the longest continental mountain range in the world.

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Aron Ralston

Aron Lee Ralston (born October 27, 1975) is an American outdoorsman, mechanical engineer and motivational speaker known for having survived a canyoneering accident in southeastern Utah in 2003 during which he amputated his own right forearm with a dull pocketknife in order to free himself from a dislodged boulder which had him trapped in Blue John Canyon for six days.

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Atacama Desert

The Atacama Desert (Desierto de Atacama) is a plateau in South America (primarily in Chile), covering a 1000-km (600-mi) strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes mountains.

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Áncash Region

Ancash (Anqash) (Áncash) is a region of northern Peru.

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Cerro Blanco (volcano)

Cerro Blanco is a caldera in the Andes of the Catamarca Province in Argentina.

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Cerro Bonete

Cerro Bonete is a mountain in the north of the province of La Rioja, Argentina, near the provincial border with Catamarca.

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Cerro del Bolsón

Cerro del Bolsón is a mountain in the Aconquija Range of Argentina, in Tucumán province.

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Cerro El Cóndor

Cerro El Cóndor is a stratovolcano in Argentina.

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Cerro El Muerto

Cerro el Muerto (sometimes "El Muerto" fully translated as The Dead One Hill") is a mountain peak of South America and is part of the Andes mountain range.

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Cerro Solo

Cerro Solo is a large stratovolcano on the border between Argentina and Chile, west of Ojos del Salado.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Christian Stangl

Christian Stangl (born on July 10, 1966 in Landl, Austria) is an Austrian alpine style mountaineer and mountain guide.

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Copiapó (volcano)

Copiapó, also known as Azufre, is a stratovolcano located in the Atacama Region of Chile.

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Cordillera

A cordillera is an extensive chain of mountains or mountain ranges.

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Crater lake

A crater lake is a lake that forms in a volcanic crater or caldera, such as a maar; less commonly and with lower association to the term a lake may form in an impact crater caused by a meteorite, or in the crater left by an artificial explosion caused by humans.

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David Lim (mountaineer)

David Lim (born 1964) is a Singaporean mountaineer and motivational speaker who led the first Singapore Mount Everest Expedition in 1998.

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Ed Darack

Ed Darack is an American author and photographer.

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Extreme points of Earth

This is a list of extreme points of Earth, the geographical locations that are farther north or south than, higher or lower in elevation than, or farthest inland or out to sea from, any other locations on the landmasses, continents or countries.

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Extreme points of the Americas

This is a list of the extreme points of The Americas, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location on the continent.

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Falso Azufre

Falso Azufre is a complex volcano at the border of Argentina and Chile.

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Geography of Chile

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Geology of Chile

The geology of Chile is a result of the Andean and preceding orogenies occurring on the western coast of South America, a convergent boundary of tectonic plates.

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Grzegorz Gawlik

Grzegorz Gawlik (born 6 May 1980) is a Polish traveler, mountaineer, volcanoes explorer, journalist, photographer and lawyer.

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H. Adams Carter

Hubert Adams "Ad" Carter (June 6, 1914 – April 1, 1995) was an American mountaineer, language teacher and was editor of the American Alpine Journal for 35 years.

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Huascarán

Huascarán is a mountain in the Peruvian province of Yungay (Ancash Region), situated in the Cordillera Blanca range of the western Andes.

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Incahuasi

Incahuasi (possibly from Quechua: inka Inca, wasi house) is a volcanic mountain in the Andes of South America.

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Incapillo

No description.

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Index of Argentina-related articles

The following is an alphabetical list of topics related to the Argentine Republic.

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Index of Chile-related articles

The following is an alphabetical list of articles related to the Republic of Chile.

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Janne Corax

Janne Corax (born 1967) is a Swedish cyclist, mountaineer and explorer.

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Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins

Jonathan S. Kreiss-Tomkins (born February 7, 1989) is a member of the Alaska House of Representatives.

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José Antonio Delgado

José Antonio Delgado Sucre (13 May 1965 – 22 July 2006) was the first Venezuelan mountaineer to reach the summit of five eight-thousanders and one of the most experienced climbers in Latin America.

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Laguna Verde (lake of Chile)

Laguna Verde (Spanish for "green lake" or "green lagoon") is a salt lake in the Andes Mountains of Chile.

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Lake

A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land, apart from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake.

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Lascar (volcano)

Lascar is a stratovolcano within the Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes, a volcanic arc that spans the countries of Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile.

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Lhagba Pool

The Lhagba Pool was a high altitude lake considered to exist, but an examination of evidence, including satellite photos leads to a conclusion that it has dried out.

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Licancabur Lake

Licancabur Lake is a crater lake in Chile located in the volcano Licancabur in the Antofagasta region, of the Región de Antofagasta, Province of El Loa.

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List of Chile-related topics

The following is an outline of topics related to the Republic of Chile.

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List of elevation extremes by country

The following sortable table lists land surface elevation extremes by country.

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List of extreme points of Chile

This is a list of the extreme points of Chile.

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List of first ascents

The following list summarizes notable first ascents of mountains and peaks around the world, in chronological order.

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List of highest features on Earth

This is a list of the highest feature on Earth for each category.

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List of highest mountains on Earth

There are at least 109 mountains on Earth with elevations greater than above sea level.

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List of mountains by elevation

This is an incomplete list of mountains on Earth, arranged by elevation in metres above sea level.

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List of mountains in Argentina

This a list of mountains situated in Argentina, South America.

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List of mountains in Chile

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List of mountains in the Andes

A sortable list of mountains above 4,000 metres in the South American Andes.

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List of peaks by prominence

This is a list of mountain peaks ordered by their topographic prominence.

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List of stratovolcanoes

A list of stratovolcanoes active in geologically recent (Holocene) times follows below.

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List of Ultras of South America

This is a list of the 209 ultra prominent peaks, or Ultras in South America.

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List of volcanoes by elevation

A list (incomplete) of volcanoes on Earth arranged by elevation in metres above sea level.

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List of volcanoes in Argentina

This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Argentina.

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List of volcanoes in Chile

This is a list of volcanoes in Chile.

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Llullaillaco

Llullaillaco is a dormant stratovolcano at the border of Argentina (Salta Province) and Chile (Antofagasta Region).

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Los Patos

Los Patos (also known as Tres Quebradas) is a mountain in the Andes mountain range of South America.

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Manfred Buchroithner

Manfred Ferdinand Buchroithner (born December 17, 1950 in Wels) is an Austrian cartographer, geologist, mountain researcher and mountaineer.

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Monte Pissis

Monte Pissis is an extinct volcano on the border of La Rioja and Catamarca provinces, Argentina, from the Chilean border.

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Natural regions of Chile

Because Chile extends from a point about 625 kilometers north of the Tropic of Capricorn to a point hardly more than 1,400 kilometers north of the Antarctic Circle, within its territory can be found a broad selection of the Earth's climates.

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Nevado El Fraile

Nevado El Fraile (the Friar) is a volcanic mountain in the Andes of Chile.

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Nevado San Francisco

Nevado San Francisco, or Cerro San Francisco, is a stratovolcano on the border between Argentina and Chile, located just southeast of San Francisco Pass.

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Nevado Tres Cruces

Nevado Tres Cruces is a massif of volcanic origin in the Andes Mountains on the border of Argentina and Chile.

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Nevado Tres Cruces Central

Nevado Tres Cruces Central is the second summit of an extinct volcanic massif, located in the Andes mountain range in the Atacama region of northern (Chile).

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Nevado Tres Cruces National Park

Nevado Tres Cruces National Park Located in the Atacama Region of Chile at 93.2 miles from Copiapó.

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Norte Chico, Chile

The Norte Chico (Small North, Near North, Little North) is one of the five natural regions on which CORFO divided continental Chile in 1950.

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Outline of Chile

188px An enlargeable relief map of the Republic of Chile The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Chile: Chile – country in South America occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Pastillito

Pastillitos is a volcano in the Central Andes of Chile.

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Peter E. Baker (geologist)

Peter Edward Baker (1937–2008) was a notable British volcanologist, professor emeritus of Igneous Petrology in the School of Earth Sciences (now Earth & Environment), University of Leeds.

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Purico complex

The Purico complex is a Pleistocene volcanic complex in Chile close to Bolivia, formed by an ignimbrite, several lava domes and stratovolcanoes and one maar.

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Sairecabur

Sairecabur (also known as Sairecábur) is a volcano in Chile and an associated mountain range, located on the frontier between Bolivia and Chile.

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San Francisco Pass

The San Francisco Pass is a pass over the Andes mountains which connects Argentina and Chile.

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San Pedro (Chile volcano)

San Pedro is a Holocene composite volcano in northern Chile and one of the tallest active volcanoes in the world.

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Seven Second Summits

The Seven Second Summits are the second-highest mountains of each of the seven continents.

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Seven Summits

The Seven Summits are the highest mountains of each of the seven continents.

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Snow line

The climatic snow line is the boundary between a snow-covered and snow-free surface.

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Suzuki Jimny

The Suzuki Jimny is a line of small four-wheel drive off-road cars and mini SUVs made by the Japanese automaker Suzuki produced since April 1970.

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Tipas

Cerro Tipas (also known as Cerro Cazadero or Cerro Walther Penck) is a massive complex volcano in the Andes, located in northwestern Argentina.

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Tocomar

Tocomar is a Pleistocene volcano in the Jujuy Province, Argentina.

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Tourism in Chile

Since the mid-1990s, tourism in Chile has become one of the main sources of income for the country, especially in its most extreme areas.

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Vilama (caldera)

Vilama is a Miocene caldera in Bolivia and Argentina.

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Vladas Vitkauskas

Vladas Vitkauskas (born May 7, 1953 in Viduklė, Raseiniai district in Lithuania) became the first Lithuanian and the first mountaineer from the Baltic states to climb the world‘s highest mountain, Mt. Everest (8,848 m, May 10, 1993).

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Volcanic Seven Summits

The Volcanic Seven Summits are the highest volcanoes on each of the seven continents, just as the Seven Summits are the highest peaks on each of the seven continents.

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Wheelwright caldera

Wheelwright caldera is a caldera in Chile.

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Wildlife of Chile

The wildlife of Chile encompasses a diverse range of animals and plants, a condition is attributed to the country's slender and elongated shape, which spans a wide range of latitude, and also its altitude, ranging from the windswept coastline of the Pacific coast on the west to northern Andes to the sub-Antarctic, high Andes mountains in the east.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ojos_del_Salado

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