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John Seach, Volcano Live, Volcanoes of Peru, Retrieved December 27, 2007; Peakware World Mountain Encyclopedia, "List of volcanoes in Peru". Peakware.com.
Misti is a dormant volcano located in the Andes mountains in southern Peru, rising above Peru's second-largest city, Arequipa.It is a conical volcano with two nested summit craters, the inner one of which contains a volcanic plug or lava dome with active fumaroles.
The name Huaynaputina, also spelled Huayna Putina, was given to the volcano after the 1600 eruption. [4] [5] According to one translation cited by the Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism, Huayna means 'new', and Putina means 'fire-throwing mountain'; the full name is meant to suggest the aggressiveness of its volcanic activity and refers to the 1600 eruption being its first one.
Sabancaya is the most active [74] or second most active volcano in Peru. [75] Spanish chronicles mention probable eruptions in 1752 and 1784, which might have left layers of tephra. [3] After the 18th century, the volcano went dormant for about two hundred years [37] during which only fumarolic activity was recorded. [76]
The Peruvian Geophysical Institute considers Coropuna a "high risk" volcano; [213] about 90,000 people live in risk areas, [72] and the sites most in danger are towns in the steep southern valleys. [166] Together with El Misti, Sabancaya and Ubinas, Coropuna is considered to be one of Peru's most dangerous volcanoes. [214]
Peru's government declared a 60-day state of emergency for several southern towns on Wednesday as the country's most active volcano spews ash and gas. Ash from the Ubinas volcano in the Moquegua ...
Peru will declare emergency status in the area around the Ubinas volcano in the southern region of Moquegua, the prime minister said on Monday, as the country's most active volcano has been ...
Peruvian volcanoes include stratovolcanoes, which are typically active for less than 500,000 years, long-lived clusters of lava domes, [2] and monogenetic volcanic fields. [11] Historical eruptions have been recorded at seven Peruvian volcanoes: El Misti, Huaynaputina, Sabancaya, Ticsani, Tutupaca, Ubinas, and Yucamane.