Acotango
Acotango is the central and highest of a group of stratovolcanoes straddling the border of Bolivia and Chile. It is 6,052 metres high. The group is known as Kimsa Chata and consists of three mountains: Acotango, Umurata north of it and Capurata south of it.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Cerro Capurata and Willk’i.
Cerro Capurata
Volcano
Photo: Gerard Prins, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cerro Capurata, also known as Elena Capurata or Quimsachatas is a stratovolcano in the Andes of Bolivia and Chile. To the south of Capurata lies Cerro Casparata and straight west Guallatiri, which shares a near-identical elevation with Capurata.
Willk’i
Peak
Willk'i is a 4,974-metre-high mountain in the Andes of Bolivia. It lies in the Oruro Department, Sajama Province, Turco Municipality. Willk'i lies southeast of Acotango.
Acotango
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 6,052 metres
- Description: mountain shared by Bolivia and Chile
- Categories: mountain, stratovolcano, and landform
- Location: Bolivia, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-18.38282° or 18° 22′ 58″ southLongitude
-69.048° or 69° 2′ 53″ westElevation
6,052 metres (19,856 feet)Open location code
57HGJX82+VROpenStreetMap ID
node 96307640OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
Discover Acotango from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Yue Chinese—“Acotango” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Akotanqo vulkanı”
- Basque: “Acotango”
- Bulgarian: “Акотанго”
- Catalan: “Acotango”
- Cebuano: “Cerro Acotango”
- Chinese: “阿科坦戈火山”
- Czech: “Acotango”
- Dutch: “Cerro Acotango”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل اكوتانجو”
- Esperanto: “Akotango”
- French: “Acotango”
- Georgian: “აკოტანგო”
- German: “Acotango”
- German: “Cerro Acotango”
- German: “Vulkan Acotango”
- Greek: “Ακοτάνγκο”
- Hungarian: “Acotango”
- Indonesian: “Acotango”
- Italian: “Acotango”
- Italian: “Monte Acotango”
- Ladin: “Acotango”
- Lithuanian: “Akotangas”
- Luxembourgish: “Cerro Acotango”
- Malay: “Gunung berapi Acotango”
- Mingrelian: “აკოტანგო”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Acotango”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Acotango”
- Norwegian: “Acotango”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Acotango”
- Ossetian: “Акотанго”
- Persian: “آکوتانگو”
- Polish: “Acotango”
- Portuguese: “Acotango”
- Quechua: “Aqutanku”
- Russian: “Акотанго”
- Slovak: “Acotango”
- Spanish: “Cerro Acotango”
- Spanish: “Volcan Acotango”
- Spanish: “Volcán Acotango”
- Swedish: “Cerro Acotango”
- Ukrainian: “Аконтаґо”
- Ukrainian: “Акотанґо”
- Venetian: “Acotango”
- Yue Chinese: “阿科坦戈火山”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Glaciar del Acotango and Umurata.
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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 “Acotango”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.