Tupungato
Tupungato, one of the highest mountains in the Americas, is a massive Andean lava dome dating to Pleistocene times. It lies on the Argentina–Chile border, between the Chilean Metropolitan Region and the Argentine province of Mendoza, about 100 km south of Aconcagua, the highest peak of both the Southern and Western hemispheres.
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 6,570 metres
- Description: Volcanic dome in the Andes
- Also known as: “Cerro Tupungato”, “Tupungato Volcano”, “Vulcano Tupungato”, and “トゥプンガート”
Tupungato
- Categories: lava dome, mountain, and landform
- Location: Chile, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-33.35789° or 33° 21′ 28″ south
Longitude
-69.7695° or 69° 46′ 10″ west
Elevation
6,570 metres (21,555 feet)
Open location code
47RGJ6RJ+R5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Venetian—“Tupungato” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Volcán Tupungato”
- Bavarian: “Tupungato”
- Belarusian: “Тупунгата”
- Bulgarian: “Тупунгато”
- Catalan: “Tupungato”
- Cebuano: “Bukid Tupungato”
- Chinese: “图蓬加托火山”
- Chinese: “圖蓬加托火山”
- Croatian: “Tupungato”
- Czech: “Tupungato”
- Dutch: “Tupungato”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل توپونجاتو ڤولكانو”
- Esperanto: “Tupungato”
- French: “Tupungato”
- German: “Tupungato”
- Greek: “Τουπουνγάτο”
- Hungarian: “Tupungato”
- Indonesian: “Tupungato”
- Italian: “Tupungato”
- Japanese: “トゥプンガート山”
- Korean: “투풍가토산”
- Ladin: “Tupungato Volcano”
- Lithuanian: “Tupungatas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tupungato”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tupungato”
- Norwegian: “Tupungato”
- Ossetian: “Тупунгато”
- Persian: “توپونگاتو”
- Polish: “Tupungato”
- Portuguese: “Tupungato”
- Russian: “Тупунгато”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tupungato”
- Spanish: “Volcán Tupungato”
- Swedish: “Tupungato”
- Turkish: “Tupungato”
- Ukrainian: “Тупунґато”
- Venetian: “Tupungato”
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