Huequi

Huequi (Spanish pronunciation: [weki]) is a stratovolcano located in Los Lagos Region of Chile. It lies at the centre of Ayacara Peninsula and close to the Gulf of Ancud.[1] It has an elevation of 1,318 metres (4,324 ft). It has a sharp summit and reportedly "smoked" in the 1950s [2] and is made up from a lava dome complex situated in a depression of unclear origin, a postglacial lava dome Calle and a Pleistocene Porcelana volcano with Holocene parasitic cones.[3][4]

Huequi
Highest point
Elevation1,318 m (4,324 ft)
Coordinates42°22′36″S 72°34′41″W 
Geography
Huequi
Location of Huequi in southern Chile
LocationChile
Parent rangeAndes
Geology
Mountain typeStratovolcano
Last eruption1920 (?)

See also

References
  • "Huequi". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.
  1. "Volcán Huequi". sernageomin.cl (in Spanish). National Geology and Mining Service. Retrieved January 10, 2019. El volcán Huequi se compone de un conjunto de domos y depósitos piroclásticos asociados, estos últimos generados probablemente por el colapso de los domos activos aunque también se reconocen depósitos de caída y de avalancha. Se emplaza en el centro de la península de Ayacara, Chiloé Continental, sitio remoto y de difícil acceso por vía terrestre.
  2. United States. Hydrographic Office (1952). Sailing Directions for South America: The west coast from Golfo Corcovado to the Gulf of Panama including off-lying islands. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 69.
  3. J. Rabassa (22 September 2011). The Late Cenozoic of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. Elsevier. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-08-055889-9.
  4. Sebastian F.L. Watt; David M. Pyle; Tamsin A. Mather (July 2011). "Geology, petrology and geochemistry of the dome complex of Huequi volcano, southern Chile". Andean Geology. 38 (2): 335–348 – via SciELO.


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