Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Villarrica volcano had frequent strombolian eruptions in the second half of the 16th century. [12] Peaks of activity occurred in 1558 and 1562. [12] The 1562 eruption in particular deposited thin ash layers as far as 200 km away from the volcano. [12] During its early years the city of Villarrica was an important gold and silver mining centre. [13]
The volcanoes of the Andes originate from the subduction of the Nazca Plate under the South American Plate, while the volcanoes of Chile's Pacific islands formed from magma coming from three distinct hotspots, Easter, Juan Fernández and San Felix hotspots. The westernmost part of the ridges formed by these hotspots contain the most recently ...
Original file (1,680 × 2,240 pixels, file size: 1.28 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. ... Summit crater of Villarrica, Chile.jpg.
The centerpiece of the park is a line of three volcanoes stretching transversely to the Andean range: Villarrica, Quetrupillán, and Lanín. Other mountains in the park include Quinquilil volcano (2,050 m (6,726 ft)), also known as Colmillo del Diablo, and Cerro Las Peinetas, which lies on the border between Argentina and Chile. It ranges in ...
The Villarrica Volcano, one of the ten most active in the world, is situated to the south of the lake. There are two Chile National Parks close by: the Huerquehue and the Villarrica . The latter is famous for its natural hot springs .
During the conquest of Chile the Spanish founded the city of Villarrica in 1552 in the area of what is now Pucón. [5] The Spanish carried out significant mining of gold in placer deposits around this city. [5] However at some point in the 16th century it is presumed the gold placers were buried by lahars flowing down from nearby Villarrica ...
copy this file metadata and upload it using this upload form with “{{Extracted from|File:Tamsin Mather at the summit of Villarrica volcano, Chile.jpg}}” appended to the source field. add {{Image extracted|xxx.ext}} to the other versions field of this file. add the new file as an image to the Wikidata item.
This file has an extracted image: Villarrica Chile Wikivoyage banner.jpg. Camera location: View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap: Licensing. I, the ...