Apagado (Hualiaque) | |
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The volcano is visible in the lower center of this NASA image.
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 1,210 m (3,970 ft) |
Coordinates | 41°53′0″S 72°35′0″W / 41.88333°S 72.58333°WCoordinates: 41°53′0″S 72°35′0″W / 41.88333°S 72.58333°W |
Geography | |
Location | Los Lagos Region, Chile |
Parent range | Andes |
Geology | |
Mountain type | Pyroclastic cone |
Last eruption | 590 BCE |
Apagado (Spanish for Extinct, also known as Hualiaque) is a pyroclastic cone with scattered vegetation cover. It has an approximately 400 m (1,312 ft)-wide crater and a base diameter of approximately 2 km (1 mi). The volcano is located in Chile's Los Lagos Region, and lies 13 km (8 mi) west of the Hornopirén Volcano and southwest of Yate Volcano on a peninsula that borders the Reloncaví Estuary, Reloncaví Sound and Gulf of Ancud. Apagado has a nearly intact summit crater.