Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-11201

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Viewed from the SE, Tacora rises above the steep-walled Allane valley in far northern Chile near the border with Perú. Solfataric and fumarolic activity is present, but no Holocene eruptions have been documented. Photo by Lee Siebert, 2004 (Smithsonian Institution).

Viewed from the SE, Tacora rises above the steep-walled Allane valley in far northern Chile near the border with Perú. Solfataric and fumarolic activity is present, but no Holocene eruptions have been documented.

Photo by Lee Siebert, 2004 (Smithsonian Institution).

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Tacora

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