Apagado

Apagado (Hualiaque)
The volcano is visible in the lower center of this NASA image.
Highest point
Elevation	1,210 m (3,970 ft)
Coordinates	41°53′0″S 72°35′0″W
Geography
Location	Los Lagos Region, Chile
Parent range	Andes
Geology
Rock age	2,500 years
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

• List of volcanoes in Chile

References

• "Apagado". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.

External links

• SI Google Earth Placemarks - Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program: download placemarks with SI Holocene volcano-data.