Licancabur
About
Licancabur
is a
stratovolcano
on the border between
Bolivia
and
Chile
, south of the
Sairecabur
volcano and west of
Juriques
. Part of the
Andean
Central Volcanic Zone
, it has a prominent, 5,916-metre (19,409 ft)-high
cone
. A 400-metre (1,300 ft)
summit crater
containing
Licancabur Lake
, a
crater lake
which is among the
highest lakes in the world
, caps the volcano. Three stages of
lava flow
emanate from the volcano, which formed on
Pleistocene
ignimbrites
.