Olmedo (volcano)

See also: Olmedo (homonymy)

The Olmedo is currently a small stratovolcano considered as extinct, which is in Argentinian in the province of Catamarca (Department of Tinogasta). It is high of 6  215 meters.

Situation

It is drawn up in an almost lunar landscape, between 4 great volcanic complexes: the Cerro Bayo in the south with less than ten kilometers, the Nevados Ojos del Salado with the north-north-west with less than 15 kilometers, the solid mass of the Nacimientos near to five kilometers hardly in the west, and group it of the two volcanos Gendarme Argentino I and Gendarme Argentino II (with five kilometers in the east). They seem to assemble the guard on this area very little accessible.

It is thus very close to the large volcanic solid mass of Nacimientos, more precisely with less than five kilometers in the east of this last, and also of the Cerro Bayo. It does not belong however to any of these two solid masses.

Description

Its cone which rises with the very appreciable height of 6  215 meters is overcome by a relatively small crater.

Enclosed by its neighbors giant than him, it is in a very difficult zone of access and is little known of this fact. The trunk road 60 which crosses the Paso of San Francisco is rather distant from him. Being given the very hard conditions of the medium and the weak tourist equipment of the zone, very few are those which are risked to climb it.

See too

Related articles

External bonds

  • List and photographs of the principal volcanos of South America of which the volcano Olmedo
  • Seen by satellite of the Olmedo volcano and of its neighbors

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