Palpana
Palpana is a volcano in the Andes of Chile. It has a summit elevation of 6,040 metres. It is part of the dividing range between Upper Loa River basin and Salar de Ascotán basin.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 6,040 metres
- Description: mountain in Antofagasta Region, Chile
- Also known as: “Cerro Palpana” and “Cerro Palpani”
Palpana
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Calama, El Loa, Antofagasta, Northern Chile, Chile, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-21.54693° or 21° 32′ 49″ southLongitude
-68.52313° or 68° 31′ 23″ westElevation
6,040 metres (19,816 feet)Open location code
57CHFF3G+6QOpenStreetMap ID
node 1263568671OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Palpana” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Cerro Palpana (bukid, lat -21,54, long -68,52)”
- Cebuano: “Cerro Palpana”
- Chinese: “帕爾帕納火山”
- Dutch: “Palpana”
- Egyptian Arabic: “پالپانا”
- French: “Palpana”
- German: “Palpana”
- Ladin: “Palpana”
- Portuguese: “Palpana”
- Spanish: “Cerro Palpana”
- Spanish: “Palpana (volcán)”
- Spanish: “Volcan Palpana”
- Spanish: “Volcán Palpana”
- Swedish: “Cerro Palpana”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Palpana”. Photo: FatAlbert, CC BY-SA 3.0.