SIERRA NEVADA (STRATOVOLCANO)

'Sierra Nevada' is a stratovolcano located in the Araucanía Region of Chile, near the Llaima volcano. Its last certain eruptions were in the Pleistocene period, but its activity may extend into the Holocene. Its primary lavas are andesitic and basaltic flows, although it has also produced pyroclastic flows. Lahars are also a hazard of this volcano.

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★ Volcanes de Chile, , Oscar, González-Ferrán, Santiago, Chile: Instituto Geográfico Militar, , (in Spanish; also includes volcanoes of Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru)