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 ...
.
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 ...
.
References
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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
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