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PN Lauca | Lago de Chungará |
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This lake (4520 m asl.) has been impounded by the deposit of a 6 cubic kilometres large rock/debris avalanche originating from a volcanically induced collapse of a slope of Volcán Parinacota approx. 8,000 years ago.
- Location
- View on OpenStreetMap
- Created
- on Friday 22 September 2006 by Martin Mergili
- Region
- Keywords
- high-mountain ecosystems, lake, landslide, landslide dam, mountainscape, puna, Zonobiome III
- Visits and license
- 6227 visits, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED license