Mount Peres ( ar, تل الفرس, ''Tall al-Faras'', he, הר פֶּרֶס, ''Har Peres'') is a
volcanic
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates a ...
mountain located in central
Golan Heights
The Golan Heights ( ar, هَضْبَةُ الْجَوْلَانِ, Haḍbatu l-Jawlān or ; he, רמת הגולן, ), or simply the Golan, is a region in the Levant spanning about . The region defined as the Golan Heights differs between di ...
, some east of
Moshav Keshet.
Its highest point is above
sea level
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, or about above ground level. The mountain is the southernmost of a series of
dormant volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates a ...
es that stretch up to the northern parts of the Golan Heights. On top of the mountain is a well-preserved
crater, 200 meters in diameter and deep.
References
Mountains of the Golan Heights
Volcanoes of the Golan Heights
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