Purico Complex
ASTE with Cerro El Chascón (right).
Elevation	5,703 metres (18,711 ft)
Location	Chile
Coordinates	23°00′S 67°45′W / 23°S 67.75°W / -23; -67.75Coordinates: 23°00′S 67°45′W / 23°S 67.75°W / -23; -67.75
Type	Pyroclastic shield
Age of rock	Holocene
Last eruption	Unknown

The Purico Complex is a pyroclastic shield, located in northern Chile, immediately south of the border between Bolivia and Chile.

[edit] Subsidiary features

• Stratovolcanoes
  • Cerros de Macón - 5,130 m
  • Cerro Toco - 5,604 m
• Maar
  • Alitar - 5,346 m
• Lava domes
  • Cerro Agua Amarga - 5,058 m
  • Cerro Áspero - 5,262 m
  • Cerro Chajnantor - 5,639 m
  • Cerro El Chascón - 5,703 m
  • Cerro Negro - 5,016 m
  • Cerro Putas - 5,462 m

[edit] See also

• List of volcanoes in Chile
• San Pedro de Atacama
• Llano de Chajnantor Observatory
• NANTEN2 Observatory
• Licancabur

Summit of Cerro Toco (left) and Cerros de Macón (right) from Salar de Atacama area.

[edit] References

• "Purico Complex". Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution. http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=1505-094. 

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