List of volcanoes in Argentina
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This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Argentina
Argentina
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| Name | Elevation | Location | Last eruption | |
| meters | feet | Coordinates | ||
| Antofagasta de la Sierra Antofagasta de la Sierra Antofagasta de la Sierra is a volcanic field in Argentina. The main type of volcanic edifice in the area are scoria cones. The area contains the youngest vents in the whole of the Puna region of Argentina. It is considered by many authors that the cones in the field are only a few thousand years... |
4,000 | 13,123 | 26°04.8′S 67°30′W | Holocene |
| Antofalla Antofalla Antofalla is a large and very remote stratovolcano in Catamarca Province in northwestern Argentina. It is located on the edge of the Puna de Atacama, a high desert plateau east of the Atacama Desert. It lies just west of the Salar de Antofalla, a large playa over in length... |
6,440 | 20,013 | 25°31.8′S 68°00′W | Unknown |
| Aracar Aracar Aracar is a large conical stratovolcano in northwestern Argentina, just east of the Chilean border. It has an uneroded summit crater about in diameter which contains a small crater lake. It is located on the edge of the Puna de Atacama, a high desert plateau east of the Atacama Desert... |
6,082 | 19,954 | 24°16.2′S 67°46.2′W | 1993 |
| Caldera del Atuel | 5,189 | 17,024 | 34°39′S 70°03′W | Unknown |
| Cerro Bayo | 5,401 | 17,720 | 25°25.2′S 68°34.8′W | Holocene |
| Cerro El Cóndor Cerro El Cóndor Cerro El Cóndor is a stratovolcano in Argentina. It is a remote peak in the Argentine Puna de Atacama. As such it was probably the last major 6000m+ peak in the Andes to be climbed, the first recorded ascent being in 2003.-See also:... |
6,532 | 21,430 | 26°37.2′S 68°21′W | Holocene |
| Cerro Escorial | 5,447 | 17,871 | 25°04.8′S 68°22.2′W | Holocene |
| Cerro Tuzgle Cerro Tuzgle Cerro Tuzgle is a stratovolcano in northwestern Argentina. It is the easternmost young stratovolcano of the central Andes, located about 120 km east of the main volcanic arc.... |
5,500 | 18,044 | 24°03′S 66°28.8′W | Holocene |
| Cerro Volcánico Cerro Volcánico Cerro Volcánico is a cinder cone in Argentina, located southeast of the massive stratovolcano of Tronador. The cone produced a single andesite lava flow, which has been bracketed in age between 70,000 and 14,000 years ago.-See also:... |
1,930 | 6,332 | 41°16.8′S 71°39′W | Holocene |
| Cochiquito Volcanic Group Cochiquito Volcanic Group The Cochiquito Volcanic Group is a small volcanic group of volcanoes north of the town of Buta Ranquil in Argentina. The main peak is Volcán Cochiquito, a stratovolcano of estimated Pleistocene–Holocene age. There are eight satellite cones in the volcanic field, including Volcán Sillanegra and... |
1,435 | 4,708 | 36°46.2′S 69°49.2′W | |
| Copahue Copahue Copahue is a stratovolcano on the border between Argentina and Chile. There are nine volcanic craters along a line, and the eastern summit crater contains a briny, acidic 300 m wide crater lake... |
2,997 | 9,833 | 37°51′0"S 71°10′0"W | 2000 |
| Cordón del Azufre Cordón del Azufre Cordón del Azufre is a small, inactive complex volcano located on the Central Andes, at the border of Argentina and Chile.-External links:* - Volcanology at the University of North Dakota... |
5,463 | 17,923 | 25°20′0"S 68°31′0"W | |
| Domuyo Domuyo The Domuyo Volcano is a stratovolcano located in the Argentine province of Neuquén.With a height of , it is the highest mountain in Patagonia and is sometimes called the "Roof of Patagonia" .... |
4,709 | 15,449 | 36°35′0"S 70°25′0"W | |
| Falso Azufre | 5,890 | 19,324 | 26°48′0"S 68°22′0"W | Holocene |
| Galán Galán Cerro Galán is a caldera in Catamarca Province, Argentina, considered to be the best exposed large caldera in the world. It was formed 2.2 million years ago when 1,050 km3 of material was erupted, producing ignimbrite deposits stretching up to 100 km away... |
6,100 | 20,013 | 25°55′0"S 66°52′0"W | 2.2 million years ago |
| Huanquihue Group Huanquihue Group The Huanquihue Group is a group of young basaltic stratovolcanoes in Argentina near the border with Chile, south of Lanín volcano. The Huanquihue group is located south of Epulafquén Lake, north of Loglog Lake and west of Reigolil-Pirihueico Fault in Chile.... |
1,400? | 4,593 | 39°52′0"S 71°33′0"W | 1750 ± 100 years |
| Incahuasi Incahuasi Incahuasi or Nevado de Incahuasi is a mountain between the Argentine province of Catamarca, and the Atacama Region of Chile. Located at approximate coordinates , it has a height of 6,621m.... |
6,621 | 21,722 | 27°2′30"S 68°17′0"W | Unknown |
| Lanin Lanín Lanín is an ice-clad, cone-shaped stratovolcano on the border of Argentina and Chile. It forms part of two national parks: Lanín in Argentina and Villarrica in Chile. It is a symbol of the Argentine province of Neuquén, being part of its flag and its anthem. Although the date of its last eruption... |
3,747 | 12,293 | 39°37′58"S 71°29′59"W | 560 ± 150 years |
| Lastarria Lastarria Lastarria, also known as Azufre, is a stratovolcano along the border of Argentina and Chile.... |
5,697 | 18,691 | 25°10′0"S 68°30′0"W | Holocene |
| Llullaillaco Llullaillaco Llullaillaco is a stratovolcano at the border of Argentina and Chile. It lies in the Puna de Atacama, a region of very high volcanic peaks on a high plateau within the Atacama Desert, one of the driest places in the world... |
6,739 | 22,109 | 24°43′0"S 68°32′0"W | 1877 |
| Maipo Maipo (volcano) Maipo is a stratovolcano in the Andes, lying on the border between Argentina and Chile. It is located south of Tupungato and about southeast of Santiago.... |
5,264 | 17,270 | 34°9′38"S 69°49′58"W | 1908 |
| Ojos del Salado Ojos del Salado Nevado Ojos del Salado is a massive stratovolcano in the Andes on the Argentina-Chile border and the highest volcano in the world at . It is also the second highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere and the highest in Chile... |
6,887 | 22,595 | 27°7′0"S 68°33′0"W | 700 AD ± 300 years |
| Palei-Aike Volcanic Field | 282 | 925 | 52°0′0"S 70°0′0"W | 5550 BC ± 1000 years |
| Payun Matru Payun Matru Payun Matru is a shield volcano in Argentina, located in the Reserva Provincial La Payunia of the Malargüe Department, to the south of the Mendoza Province.... |
3,680 | 12,073 | 36°25′0"S 69°12′0"W | Holocene |
| Peinado | 5,740 | 18,832 | 26°37′0"S 68°9′0"W | Holocene |
| Planchón-Peteroa Planchón-Peteroa Planchón-Peteroa is a complex volcano extending in a north-south direction along the border between Argentina and Chile. It consists of volcanoes of various ages with several overlapping calderas... |
4,107 | 13,471 | 35°14′24"S 70°34′12"W | 2010 |
| Puesto Cortaderas | 970 | 3,182 | 37°33′0"S 69°37′0"W | Holocene |
| Risco Plateado Risco Plateado Risco Plateado is a stratovolcano in Argentina. With a prominence of 1,602 meters, it is an ultra prominent peak.... |
4,999 | 16,401 | 34°56′0"S 70°0′0"W | |
| Robledo | 4,400 | 14,436 | 26°46′0"S 67°43′0"W | Holocene |
| Sierra Nevada de Lagunas Bravas Sierra Nevada de Lagunas Bravas Sierra Nevada, also known as Sierra Nevada de Lagunas Bravas, is a volcanic complex which lies in both Chile and Argentina. Some of the complex is of Holocene age, but there is also an older Pleistocene volcanism evident. The older material is to the east in Argentina. The complex lies in one of... |
6,127 | 20,101 | 26°28.8′S 68°34.8′W | |
| Socompa Socompa Socompa is a large complex stratovolcano at the border of Argentina and Chile. It is best known for its large debris avalanche deposit, which is widely accepted as the best-preserved example of this type of deposit in the world, and also notable as the home of the world's most elevated known... |
6,051 | 19,852 | 24°24′0"S 68°15′0"W | 5250 BC |
| Tipas Tipas Cerro Tipas is a massive complex volcano in northwestern Argentina, located just southwest of Ojos del Salado, the highest volcano in the world. Tipas itself is perhaps the third highest active volcano in the world, and it consists of stratovolcanoes, lava domes, and lava flows.-Source:*... |
6,660 | 21,850 | 27°12′0"S 68°33′0"W | Holocene |
| Trocon Trocon Trocon is a lava dome complex in Argentina. It has two summit craters and a pyroclastic cone. It is of estimated Pleistocene-Holocene age.-References:*... |
2,500 | 8,200 | 37°45′0"S 69°53′0"W | |
| Tromen Tromen Tromen is a stratovolcano in western Argentina. It rises above the older caldera of the Volcán Negro del Tromen.-References:*... |
3,978 | 13,051 | 37°8′30"S 70°2′0"W | 1822 |
| Viedma Viedma (volcano) Viedma is a subglacial volcano in southern Argentina, located below the ice of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field. The 1988 eruption deposited ash and pumice on the ice field and produced a mudflow that reached Viedma Lake.... |
1,500 | 4,921 | 49°21′30"S 73°17′0"W | 1988 |