Kimsa Chata
Kimsa Chata or Kimsachata is an 8 km -long volcanic complex on a north–south alignment along the border between Bolivia and Chile, overseeing Chungara Lake.Photo: Gerard Prins, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Locality
- Description: group of three mountains on the border of Bolivia and Chile
- Also known as: “Nevado Quimsa Chata”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Acotango and Willk’i.
Acotango
Volcano
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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.
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. Willk’i is situated 3½ km southeast of Kimsa Chata.
Kimsa Chata
- Category: mountain
- Location: Bolivia, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-18.37999° or 18° 22′ 48″ southLongitude
-69.05058° or 69° 3′ 2″ westOpen location code
57HGJWCX+2QOpenStreetMap ID
node 13961022377OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityWikidata ID
Q3338819
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Kimsa Chata” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Nevado Quimsachata”
- Cebuano: “Nevados de Quimsachata”
- Chinese: “基姆薩查塔火山”
- Dutch: “Kimsa Chata”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كيمسا تشاتا (تشيلى)”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كيمسا تشاتا”
- French: “Nevados de Quimsachata”
- Hausa: “Dutsen Kimsa Chata (Bolivia-Chile)”
- Hausa: “Dutsen Kimsa Chata”
- Ladin: “Kimsa Chata”
- Lithuanian: “Kimsačatos ugnikalniai”
- Persian: “کیمسا چاتا (بولیوی-شیلی)”
- Persian: “کیمسا چاتا”
- Quechua: “Kimsa Chata (Buliwya-Chili)”
- Quechua: “Kimsa Chata”
- Spanish: “Nevado Quimsachata”
- Spanish: “Quimsi Chata”
- Swedish: “Nevados de Quimsachata”
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