Chacana
Chacana is a large 32-km long - 18–24 km wide caldera that has erupted in historical times. It forms one of the largest rhyolite centers in the Northern Andes with major eruptions over the past 240,000, 180,00, and 160,000 years ago and has had andesitic-rhyolitic volcanism.Chacana
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 4,643 metres
- Description: mountain in Ecuador
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Pintag, Quito Canton, Pichincha, Ecuador, South America
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Latitude
-0.21353° or 0° 12′ 49″ southLongitude
-78.18542° or 78° 11′ 8″ westElevation
4,643 metres (15,233 feet)Open location code
67F3QRP7+HROpenStreetMap ID
node 352917238OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Chacana” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Chacana”
- Cebuano: “Chacana (bukid)”
- Cebuano: “Chacana”
- Chinese: “查卡納火山”
- Chinese: “查卡纳火山”
- Czech: “Chacana”
- Dutch: “Chacana”
- Ladin: “Chacana”
- Persian: “چاکانا”
- Quechua: “Chakana (nina urqu)”
- Quechua: “Chakana”
- Russian: “Чакана”
- Slovak: “Chacana”
- Swedish: “Chacana (berg)”
- Swedish: “Chacana”
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