Taapaca
Taapaca is a Holocene volcanic complex in northern Chile's Arica y Parinacota Region. Located in the Chilean Andes, it is part of the Central Volcanic Zone of the Andean Volcanic Belt, one of four distinct volcanic chains in South America.
Wikimedia, Public domain.- Volcano rising to 5,860 metres (19,226 feet)
- Description: volcano in Chile
- Also known as“Cerro Taapaca”“Nevados de Putre”
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Latitude
-18.11276° or 18° 6′ 46″ south
Longitude
-69.50768° or 69° 30′ 28″ west
Open location code
57HGVFPR+VW
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OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Taapaca” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تاباكا”
- Asturian: “Taapaca”
- Cebuano: “Cerro Taapacá”
- Chinese: “塔帕卡火山”
- Czech: “Taapaca”
- Dutch: “Taapaca”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل تاپاكا”
- French: “Taapaca”
- Georgian: “ტააპაკა”
- German: “Taapaca”
- German: “Vulkan Taapaca”
- Italian: “Taapaca”
- Japanese: “タアパカ”
- Ladin: “Taapaca”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Taapaca”
- Persian: “تاپاکا”
- Polish: “Taapaca”
- Russian: “Таапака”
- Slovak: “Taapaca”
- Spanish: “Volcán Taapacá”
- Swedish: “Cerro Taapacá”
- Turkish: “Taapaca Yanardağı”
- Ukrainian: “Таапака”
- Venetian: “Taapaca”
- Wu Chinese: “塔帕卡火山”
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