Cerro Toco

Cerro Toco is a stratovolcano located in the eastern part of the in Chile's II Region, approximately 6 km south of the border between and Chile and 12 km SE of the and volcanoes.
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Photo: Gerard Prins, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Atacama Cosmology Telescope and Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor.

Building
Photo: Ahincks, CC BY 3.0.
The was a cosmological millimeter-wave telescope located on Cerro Toco in the in the north of . ACT made high-sensitivity, arcminute resolution, microwave-wavelength surveys of the sky in order to study the cosmic microwave background radiation, the relic radiation left by the Big Bang process.

Building
Photo: Petroffm, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is an array of microwave telescopes which has been observing since 2016 from a high-altitude site in the of as part of the Parque Astronómico de Atacama.

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The Simons Observatory is located in the high in Northern inside the Chajnator Science Preserve, at an altitude of 5,200 meters. The and the were located nearby but these instruments have now been replaced by the current telescopes of the Simons Observatory.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Atacama Large Millimeter Array.

Hamlet
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The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array is an astronomical interferometer of 66 radio telescopes in the of northern , which observe electromagnetic radiation at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths. is situated 9 km south of Cerro Toco.

Cerro Toco

Latitude
-22.94622° or 22° 56′ 46″ south
Longitude
-67.77534° or 67° 46′ 31″ west
Elevation
5,604 metres (18,386 feet)
Open location code
579J363F+GV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1009975243
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Geo­Names ID
3869731
Wiki­data ID
Q5064989
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Satellite Map

Discover Cerro Toco from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Cerro Toco” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Cerro Toco (bukid sa Chile)”
  • Cebuano: “Cerro Toco”
  • Chinese: “塔科山”
  • Dutch: “Cerro Toco”
  • German: “El Toco”
  • Ladin: “Cerro Toco”
  • Persian: “سرو توکو”
  • Spanish: “Cerro Toco”
  • Swedish: “Cerro Toco (berg i Chile)”
  • Swedish: “Cerro Toco”

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