Aracar

Infobox Mountain
Name=Aracar
Photo=Aracar.jpg| Caption=Aracar from the Space Shuttle
Elevation=convert|6082|m|ft|0|abbr=on|sp=us
Location=Argentina
Range = Andes
Prominence =
Coordinates = coord|24|15|S|67|46|W|type:mountain_region:AR
Topographic

Type=Stratovolcano
Age=Pliocene
Last eruption=1993
First ascent= | Easiest route=

Aracar is a large conical stratovolcano in northwestern Argentina, just east of the Chilean border. It has an uneroded summit crater about convert|1.5|km|mi|0|abbr=on|sp=us 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. The only observed volcanic activity was a possible steam or ash plume on March 28, 1993 seen from the village of Tolar Grande about convert|50|km|mi|0|abbr=on|sp=us southeast of the volcano.

ee also

*Pular
*Socompa

References

* [http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=1505-16- Global Volcanism Program: Aracar]
* (in Spanish; also includes volcanoes of Argentina)