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Cerro Overo

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  • Last Known Eruption
  • 23.52°S
  • 67.662°W

  • 4,576 m
    15,013 ft

  • 355097
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The Global Volcanism Program has no activity reports available for Cerro Overo.

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Eruptive History

The Global Volcanism Program is not aware of any Holocene eruptions from Cerro Overo. If this volcano has had large eruptions (VEI >= 4) prior to 12,000 years ago, information might be found on the Cerro Overo page in the LaMEVE (Large Magnitude Explosive Volcanic Eruptions) database, a part of the Volcano Global Risk Identification and Analysis Project (VOGRIPA).

This compilation of synonyms and subsidiary features may not be comprehensive. Features are organized into four major categories: Cones, Craters, Domes, and Thermal Features. Synonyms of features appear indented below the primary name. In some cases additional feature type, elevation, or location details are provided.

Photo Gallery

The solitary Holocene Cerro Overo maar, seen here from the south, was erupted through basement ignimbrites of Pliocene age, which form the light-colored rocks in the crater wall. A thin blanket of dark ejecta from the eruption that created the 600-m-wide, 80-m-deep maar caps its rim. Pleistocene volcanoes of the central Chilean Andes form the horizon.

Copyrighted photo by Katia and Maurice Krafft, 1983.
Colachi (left) is an andesitic-dacitic stratovolcano whose most recent activity produced pristine silicic lava flows of probable Holocene age. The largest of these covers a 7 km2 area on the saddle between Colachi and the neighboring volcano of Acamarachi (center horizon). This aerial view from the west also shows the conical peak of Aguas Calientes (far right), a twin volcano of Lascar volcano, whose slopes appear at the lower right. The Talabre valley in the center foreground is partially filled by an andesitic lava flow from Lascar.

Photo by Insitituto Geográfico Militar, courtesy of Oscar González-Ferrán (University of Chile).
Cerro Overo maar in the foreground was formed by phreatomagmatic explosions. A thin, roughly 1.5-m-thick, dark-colored ejecta blanket surrounds the 600-m-wide, 80-m-deep maar. The maar is located on the lower NE flank of Volcán Chiliques and was erupted along a regional fault through basement ignimbrites of Pliocene age from the La Pacana caldera. On the horizon to the right is the east side of Tumisa and the dome "Negro de Barriales." On the left is the Lejia stratovolcano and caldera. Laguna Agua Caliente is at the right-center.

Photo by Instituto Geográfico Militar (courtesy of Oscar González-Ferrán, University of Chile).
Smithsonian Sample Collections Database

There are no samples for Cerro Overo in the Smithsonian's NMNH Department of Mineral Sciences Rock and Ore collection.

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