Mount Barbaro
Mount Barbaro or Mount Gauro in Italy Monte Barbaro or Monte Gauro, is one of the eruptive vents of the Phlegraean Fields, a volcanic field of Italy located in Campania.Photo: Ferdinando Marfella, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Phlegraean Fields and Lake Avernus.
Phlegraean Fields
Volcano
Photo: Oliver-Bonjoch, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Phlegraean Fields is a large volcanic caldera west of Naples, Italy. The Neapolitan Yellow Tuff eruption produced just 50 cubic kilometers. It is, however, one of relatively few volcanoes large enough to form a caldera.
Lake Avernus
Lake
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lake Avernus is a volcanic crater lake located in the Avernus crater in the Campania region of southern Italy, around 4 kilometres west of Pozzuoli. It is near the volcanic field known as the Phlegraean Fields and comprises part of the wider Campanian volcanic arc.
Monte Nuovo
Volcano
Photo: Denghiù, Public domain.
Monte Nuovo is a cinder cone volcano within the Campi Flegrei caldera, near Naples, southern Italy. A series of damaging earthquakes and changes in land elevation preceded its only eruption, during the most recent part of the Holocene, which lasted from September 29 to October 6, 1538, when it was formed.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Quarto and Pianura.
Quarto
Town
Quarto is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the Italian region Campania, located about 11 km northwest of Naples. Quarto borders the following municipalities: Giugliano in Campania, Marano di Napoli, Naples, Pozzuoli, Villaricca.
Pianura
Suburb
Pianura is a western suburb of Naples, southern Italy. It is bounded on one side by the area of Soccavo and on the other side by the outskirts of the town of Pozzuoli.
Bacoli
Town
Photo: Denghiù, Public domain.
Bacoli is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the Italian region of Campania, located about 15 kilometres west of Naples.
Mount Barbaro
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 331 metres
- Description: mountain in Italy
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Pozzuoli, Metropolitan Naples, Campania, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
40.8447° or 40° 50′ 41″ northLongitude
14.1096° or 14° 6′ 35″ eastElevation
331 metres (1,086 feet)Open location code
8FGPR4V5+VVOpenStreetMap ID
node 2422613005OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcanoWikidata ID
Q3321680
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Mount Barbaro” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبل باربارو”
- Asturian: “Monte Barbaro”
- Dutch: “Mount Barbaro”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت باربارو”
- French: “mont Barbaro”
- French: “Mont Barbaro”
- French: “Mont Gauro”
- French: “Monte Barbaro”
- French: “Monte Gauro”
- German: “Monte Gauro”
- Greek: “όρος Barbaro”
- Greek: “όρος Gauro”
- Greek: “όρος Βάρβαρο”
- Greek: “Όρος Βάρβαρο”
- Greek: “όρος Γαύρος”
- Italian: “Campiglione”
- Italian: “Monte Gauro”
- Japanese: “バルバロ山”
- Ladin: “Mont Barbaro”
- Persian: “کوه باربارو”
- Spanish: “Monte Barbaro”
- Spanish: “Monte Gauro”
- Venetian: “Monte Gauro”
- “Mons Gaurus”
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