Sierra Nevada
Sierra Nevada is a stratovolcano located in the La Araucanía Region of Chile, near the Llaima volcano. Its last certain eruptions were in the Pleistocene period, but its activity may extend into the Holocene.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Sierra Nevada
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 2,554 metres
- Description: volcano
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Araucanía, Southern Chile, Chile, South America
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Latitude
-38.58696° or 38° 35′ 13″ southLongitude
-71.58921° or 71° 35′ 21″ westElevation
2,554 metres (8,379 feet)Open location code
47HCCC76+68OpenStreetMap ID
node 5809544504OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Venetian—“Sierra Nevada” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Sierra Nevada sumendia”
- Cebuano: “Sierra Nevada”
- Chinese: “內瓦多峰”
- Chinese: “內華達山脈 (複式火山)”
- Dutch: “Sierra Nevada”
- French: “Sierra Nevada”
- German: “Sierra Nevada”
- Italian: “Sierra Nevada”
- Ladin: “Sierra Nevada”
- Persian: “سیرا نوادا”
- Romanian: “Sierra Nevada”
- Spanish: “Sierra Nevada”
- Swedish: “Sierra Nevada”
- Venetian: “Sierra Nevada”
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Localities in the Area
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