Descabezado Grande Explained

Descabezado Grande
Elevation M:3,953
Location:Central Chile
Range:Andes
Coordinates:-35.5906°N -70.7467°W
Map:Chile
Type:Stratovolcano
Age:Pleistocene
Volcanic Arc/Belt:South Volcanic Zone
Last Eruption:June 1933

Descabezado Grande (also Cerro Azul or Quizapu[1]) is a stratovolcano located in the Maule Region of central Chile. It is capped by a 1.4km (00.9miles) ice-filled caldera and named for its flat-topped form, as descabezado means "headless" in Spanish. A smaller crater about wide is found in the northeast part of the caldera, and it has active fumaroles.

The volcano is composed of andesite and rhyodacite lava flows along with pyroclastic flow deposits. It has a basal diameter of about NaNkm (-2,147,483,648miles) and a total volume of about . Along with Cerro Azul, to the south, it lies at the center of a NaNabbr=offNaNabbr=off volcanic field.

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  1. Webpage OVDAS, about Descabezado Grande, retrieved on 28 October 2013