Licancabur

Licancabur is a prominent, 5,916-metre-high stratovolcano on the Bolivia–Chile border in the Central Volcanic Zone of the . It is capped by a 400–500-metre wide summit crater which contains , a crater lake that is among the highest lakes in the world.
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  • Type: Volcano with an elevation of 5,920 metres
  • Description: stratovolcano on the border between Bolivia and Chile
  • Also known as: Cerro Licancábur”, “Cerro Licancahur”, “Licancabur Volcano”, “Licancábur Volcano”, “Licancaur Volcano”, “Tata Maico Licanco”, and “Volcán Llicancaur

Places of Interest

Highlights include Licancabur Lake.

Lake
is a crater lake in located on the volcano Licancabur. It is close to the city and also very close to the border of Chile with .

Licancabur

Latitude
-22.83369° or 22° 50′ 1″ south
Longitude
-67.88241° or 67° 52′ 57″ west
Elevation
5,920 metres (19,423 feet)
Open location code
579J5489+G2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 96305003
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Geo­Names ID
3911550
Wiki­data ID
Q422713
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Vietnamese—“Licancabur” goes by many names.
  • Basque: Licancabur sumendia
  • Basque: Licancabur
  • Bavarian: Licancabur
  • Belarusian: Вулкан Ліканкабур
  • Belarusian: Ліканкабур
  • Catalan: Licancabur
  • Cebuano: Volcán Licancábur
  • Chinese: 利坎卡武尔火山
  • Chinese: 利坎卡武爾火山
  • Czech: Licancabur
  • Dutch: Licancabur
  • Esperanto: Likankabur
  • Finnish: Licancabur
  • French: Cerro Licancabur
  • French: Licancabur
  • French: Volcan Licancabur
  • Galician: Licancabur
  • Georgian: ლიკანკაბური
  • German: Licancabur
  • German: Vulkan Licancabur
  • Hungarian: Licancabur
  • Indonesian: Licancabur
  • Italian: Licancabur
  • Italian: Monte Licancabur
  • Japanese: リカンカブール山
  • Korean: 리칸카부르산
  • Lithuanian: Licancabur
  • Lithuanian: Likankaburas
  • Mingrelian: ლიკანკაბური
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Licancabur
  • Ossetian: Ликанкабур
  • Persian: آتشفشان لیکانکابور
  • Persian: اتشفشان لیکانکابور
  • Persian: کوه لیکانکابور
  • Persian: لیکانکابور
  • Polish: Licancabur
  • Portuguese: Licancabour
  • Portuguese: Licancabur
  • Portuguese: Vulcão licancabour
  • Quechua: Likankawur
  • Russian: Ликанкабур
  • Slovak: Licancabur
  • Spanish: Licancabur
  • Spanish: Volcan Licancabur
  • Spanish: Volcan Licancábur
  • Spanish: Volcán Licancabur
  • Swedish: Licancábur
  • Swedish: Volcán Licancábur
  • Turkish: Licancabur dağı
  • Turkish: Licancabur
  • Ukrainian: Ліканкабур
  • Vietnamese: Licancabur

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