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Llullaillaco

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  • Country
  • Volcanic Region
  • Landform | Volc Type
  • Last Known Eruption
  • 24.72°S
  • 68.53°W

  • 6,739 m
    22,110 ft

  • 355110
  • Latitude
  • Longitude

  • Summit
    Elevation

  • Volcano
    Number

The Global Volcanism Program has no activity reports available for Llullaillaco.

The Global Volcanism Program has no Weekly Reports available for Llullaillaco.

The Global Volcanism Program has no Bulletin Reports available for Llullaillaco.

The Global Volcanism Program has no synonyms or subfeatures listed for Llullaillaco.

Eruptive History

There is data available for 3 confirmed Holocene eruptive periods.

1877 May Confirmed Eruption VEI: 2

Episode 1 | Eruption
1877 May - Unknown Evidence from Observations: Reported

List of 2 Events for Episode 1

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion
1877 May    - - - - VEI (Explosivity Index)

1868 Sep Confirmed Eruption VEI: 0

Episode 1 | Eruption
1868 Sep - Unknown Evidence from Observations: Reported

List of 2 Events for Episode 1

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Lava flow Uncertain
1868 Sep    - - - - VEI (Explosivity Index)

1854 Feb 10 Confirmed Eruption VEI: 2

Episode 1 | Eruption
1854 Feb 10 - Unknown Evidence from Observations: Reported

List of 2 Events for Episode 1

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion
1854 Feb 10    - - - - VEI (Explosivity Index)
Deformation History

There is no Deformation History data available for Llullaillaco.

Emission History

There is no Emissions History data available for Llullaillaco.

Photo Gallery

The world's highest historically active volcano, 6739-m-high Llullaillaco, sits astride the Chile-Argentina border. The summit, seen here from the NE, is formed by a smaller well-preserved cone that was constructed on an older edifice dating back to the early Pleistocene. A major debris-avalanche deposit produced by collapse of the older volcano extends eastward into Argentina. Growth of the modern cone was completed with the emplacement of a series of young lava flows down the northern and southern flanks.

Photo by Carlos Felipe Ramírez, courtesy of Oscar González-Ferrán (University of Chile).
The world's highest historically active volcano, Llullaillaco, sits astride the Chile-Argentina border in this NASA International Space Station image (with north to the upper right). A well-preserved summit cone was the source of prominent lava flows that are older than they appear in this image. The hilly terrain at the lower right was produced by a major debris avalanche about 150,000 years ago that swept eastward into Argentina and diverges around the north and south sides of the older Cerro Rosado stratovolcano (extreme lower right).

NASA International Space Station image ISS006-E-13814, 2003 (http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/).
The snow-mantled surface of Llullaillaco volcano is seen in this NASA International Space Station image (with north to the upper left). The two youthful looking lava flows with prominent flow levees descending the northern and western flanks of the volcano appeared to be of Holocene, but Ar/Ar dating showed them to be of late-Pleistocene age. Llullaillaco is the world's highest historically active volcano.

NASA International Space Station image ISS006-E-13814, 2003 (http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/).
GVP Map Holdings

Maps are not currently available due to technical issues.

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Smithsonian Sample Collections Database

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

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