Galeras
Galeras is an Andean stratovolcano in the Colombian department of Nariño, near the departmental capital Pasto. Its summit rises 4,276 metres above sea level.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 4,276 metres
- Description: volcanic mountain in Colombia
- Also known as: “El Galera”, “Galeras Volcano”, “Volcán de El Galeras”, “Volcán de Pasto”, and “Volcan Galeras”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nariño and Pasto.
Nariño
Town
Nariño is a town and municipality in the Nariño Department, Colombia. Nariño is situated 8 km north of Galeras.
Pasto
Photo: Aliman5040, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pasto is a city in the southwest of Colombia. City of the South Colombian West, with a population superior to the 400,000 inhabitants and capital of the department of Nariño.
La Florida
Town
La Florida is a town and municipality in the Nariño Department, Colombia. The village of La Florida was founded on 11 November 1820 under the original name of Mombuco which means "small valley". La Florida is situated 10 km northwest of Galeras.
Galeras
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Nariño, Pacifica, Colombia, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
1.22153° or 1° 13′ 18″ northLongitude
-77.35896° or 77° 21′ 32″ westElevation
4,276 metres (14,029 feet)Open location code
67H46JCR+JCOpenStreetMap ID
node 336937600OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
Discover Galeras from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Galeras” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Galeras”
- Arabic: “غاليرا”
- Armenian: “Գալերաս”
- Basque: “Galeras sumendia”
- Bulgarian: “Галерас”
- Catalan: “Galeras”
- Cebuano: “Volcán Galeras”
- Chinese: “加勒拉斯火山”
- Croatian: “Galeras”
- Czech: “Galeras”
- Czech: “Urcunina”
- Dutch: “Galeras”
- Dutch: “Volcan Galeras”
- Dutch: “Volcán Galeras”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جاليرا”
- Esperanto: “Galeras”
- Estonian: “Galerase vulkaan”
- Faroese: “Galeras”
- Finnish: “Galeras”
- French: “Galeras”
- French: “La Galera”
- French: “Volcan de Pasto”
- Galician: “Galeras”
- Galician: “Volcán Galeras”
- Georgian: “გალერასი”
- Georgian: “ურსუნინა”
- German: “Galeras”
- German: “Urcunina”
- German: “Vulkan Galeras”
- Hebrew: “גלראס”
- Hungarian: “Galeras”
- Indonesian: “Galeras”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Galeras”
- Italian: “Galeras”
- Japanese: “ガレラス”
- Japanese: “ガレラス山”
- Japanese: “ガレラス火山”
- Korean: “갈레라스 화산”
- Ladin: “Galeras”
- Lithuanian: “Galeras”
- Lithuanian: “Galerasas”
- Macedonian: “Галерас”
- Malay: “Galeras”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Galeras”
- Norwegian: “Galeras”
- Ossetian: “Галерас”
- Persian: “آتشفشان گالراس”
- Persian: “اتشفشان گالراس”
- Persian: “گالراس”
- Polish: “Galeras”
- Portuguese: “Galeras”
- Portuguese: “Pico Galeras”
- Portuguese: “Vulcão Galeras”
- Russian: “Галерас”
- Slovak: “Galeras”
- Spanish: “Galeras”
- Spanish: “Santuario de fauna y flora Galeras”
- Spanish: “Urcunina”
- Spanish: “Volcan de Galeras”
- Spanish: “Volcán de Galeras”
- Spanish: “Volcan Galeras”
- Spanish: “Volcán Galeras”
- Swahili: “Galeras”
- Swedish: “Galeras”
- Ukrainian: “Галерас”
- Ukrainian: “Ґалерас”
- Venetian: “Galeras”
- Vietnamese: “Galeras”
- Wu Chinese: “加勒拉斯火山”
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