Aucanquilcha
Aucanquilcha is a large compound volcano in the Antofagasta Region of northern Chile, within the Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes. The volcano has the form of a ridge reaching an altitude of 6176 m above sea level, and formed between 1.04 and 0.23 million years ago; there is ongoing fumarolic activity.- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 6,174 metres
- Description: mountain in Antofagasta Region, Chile
- Also known as: “Aucanquilcha (volcan)”, “Aucanquilcha (volcán)”, “Volcan Aucanquilcha”, “Vulkan Aucanquilcha”, and “Ауканкільча”
Aucanquilcha
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Ollague, El Loa, Antofagasta, Chile, South America
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Latitude
-21.2207° or 21° 13′ 15″ south
Longitude
-68.4685° or 68° 28′ 7″ west
Elevation
6,174 metres (20,256 feet)
Open location code
57CHQGHJ+PH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Aucanquilcha” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Aucanquilcha”
- Bosnian: “Aucanquilcha”
- Cebuano: “Cerro Aucanquilcha”
- Chinese: “奧坎基爾查峰”
- Czech: “Aucanquilcha”
- Dutch: “Aucanquilcha”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوكانكويلتشا”
- French: “Aucanquilcha”
- Georgian: “აუკანკილჩა”
- German: “Aucanquilcha”
- Indonesian: “Aucanquilcha”
- Japanese: “アウカンキルチャ”
- Ladin: “Aucanquilcha”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aucanquilcha”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aucanquilcha”
- Norwegian: “Aucanquilcha”
- Persian: “اوکان کویلچا”
- Polish: “Aucanquilcha”
- Portuguese: “Aucanquilcha”
- Quechua: “Awqankilcha”
- Russian: “Ауканкильча”
- Slovak: “Aucanquilcha”
- Spanish: “Volcán Aucanquilcha”
- Swedish: “Aucanquilcha”
- Swedish: “Cerro Aucanquilcha”
- Turkish: “Aucanquilcha Yanardağı”
- Ukrainian: “Ауканкілча”
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