Licancabur
Licancabur is a prominent, 5,916-metre-high stratovolcano on the Bolivia–Chile border in the Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes. It is capped by a 400–500-metre wide summit crater which contains Licancabur Lake, a crater lake that is among the highest lakes in the world.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Licancabur Lake
Lake
Photo: FatAlbert, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Licancabur Lake is a crater lake in Chile located on the volcano Licancabur. It is close to the city San Pedro de Atacama and also very close to the border of Chile with Bolivia.
Licancabur
- Categories: stratovolcano and landform
- Location: Bolivia, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-22.83369° or 22° 50′ 1″ southLongitude
-67.88241° or 67° 52′ 57″ westElevation
5,920 metres (19,423 feet)Open location code
579J5489+G2OpenStreetMap ID
node 96305003OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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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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