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Juriques is a stratovolcano on the border between Bolivia and
Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...
. It is located immediately southeast of
Licancabur Licancabur () is a stratovolcano on the border between Bolivia and Chile, south of the Sairecabur volcano and west of Juriques. Part of the Andean Central Volcanic Zone, it has a prominent, -high cone. A summit crater containing Licancab ...
volcano. Its summit is at with a crater in its longest diameter. Laguna Verde lies at the foot of this
volcano A volcano is a rupture in the Crust (geology), crust of a Planet#Planetary-mass objects, planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and volcanic gas, gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Ear ...
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Gallery

File:ALMA Dwarfed by Mountain Peaks.jpg, Stratovolcano Juriques and the
Atacama Large Millimeter Array The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is an astronomical interferometer of 66 radio telescopes in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, which observe electromagnetic radiation at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths. The ...
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References

* Volcanoes of Antofagasta Region Volcanoes of Potosí Department Stratovolcanoes of Chile Stratovolcanoes of Bolivia Polygenetic volcanoes Five-thousanders of the Andes International mountains of South America Holocene stratovolcanoes {{Antofagasta-geo-stub