Cerro Bonete is a

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in the north of the

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La Rioja La Rioja () is an autonomous community and province in Spain, in the north of the Iberian Peninsula. Its capital is Logroño. Other cities and towns in the province include Calahorra, Arnedo, Alfaro, Haro, Santo Domingo de la Calzada, an ...

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, near the provincial border with Catamarca. Its summit is 6,759 m

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, making it the fifth-highest separate mountain in the

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(after

Aconcagua Aconcagua () is a mountain in the Principal Cordillera of the Andes mountain range, in Mendoza Province, Argentina. It is the highest mountain in the Americas, the highest outside Asia, and the highest in the Southern Hemisphere with a summi ...

Ojos del Salado Nevado Ojos del Salado is a dormant complex volcano in the Andes on the Argentina–Chile border. It is the highest volcano on Earth and the highest peak in Chile. The upper reaches of Ojos del Salado consist of several overlapping lava domes, ...

Monte Pissis Monte Pissis is an extinct volcano on the border of La Rioja and Catamarca provinces, Argentina, from the Chilean border. The mountain is the third-highest in the Western Hemisphere, and is located about north of Aconcagua. Monte Pissis is ...

, and Huascaran). SRTM data disproves the frequently-made claim that its summit is 6,872 m above sea level. Within the last 3.5 million years, volcanic activity at Cerro Bonete has formed lava domes of

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and

rhyodacite Rhyodacite is a volcanic rock intermediate in composition between dacite and rhyolite. It is the extrusive equivalent of those plutonic rocks that are intermediate in composition between monzogranite and granodiorite. Rhyodacites form from rap ...

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Cerro Bonete on summitpost

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Bonete Bonete is a municipality in Albacete, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. It has inhabitants () and is located at a distance of from Albacete Albacete (, also , ; ar, ﭐَلبَسِيط, Al-Basīṭ) is a city and municipality in the Spanish aut ...

Lava domes Volcanoes of Argentina Six-thousanders of the Andes {{LaRiojaAR-geo-stub

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