Flashcards: Quaternary South America

Cerro Arenales is a heavily ice-covered stratovolcano located in the Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region of Chile, within Laguna San Rafael National Park.

Nevado del Huila (/nɛˈvɑːdoʊ dɛl ˈwiːlə/, Spanish pronunciation: [neˈβaðo ðel ˈwila]) at 5,364 metres (17,598 ft), is the highest volcano in Colombia located in Huila Department, Tolima and Cauca Departments.

Llullaillaco (Spanish pronunciation: [ʝu.ʝai̯.ˈʝa.ko]) is a potentially active stratovolcano at the border of Argentina (Salta Province) and Chile.

Reventador is an active stratovolcano which lies in the eastern Andes of Ecuador.

The Nevado del Ruiz (Spanish pronunciation: [neβaðo ðel ˈrwis]), also known as La Mesa de Herveo (English: Mesa of Herveo, the name of the nearby town), or Kumanday in the language of the local pre-Colombian indigenous people, is a volcano located on the border of the departments of Caldas and Tolima in Colombia, about 129 kilometers (80 mi) west of the capital city Bogotá.

Cotopaxi is an active stratovolcano in the Andes Mountains, located in the Latacunga canton of Cotopaxi Province, about 50 km (31 mi) south of Quito, and 33 km (21 mi) northeast of the city of Latacunga, Ecuador, in South America.

Galeras (Urcunina among the 16th-century indigenous people) is an Andean stratovolcano in the Colombian department of Nariño, near the departmental capital Pasto.

The Andagua volcanic field (also known as Andahua) is a volcanic field in southern Peru.

Puracé is a stratovolcano located in the Puracé National Natural Park in the Cauca Department, Colombia.

Doña Juana volcano (Spanish: Volcán Doña Juana ) is a stratovolcano located within the Doña Juana-Cascabel Volcanic Complex National Natural Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Natural Complejo Volcánico Doña Juana-Cascabel) in Nariño Department, Colombia.

Sangay (also known as Macas, Sanagay, or Sangai) is an active stratovolcano in central Ecuador.

Chimborazo (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃimboˈɾaθo]) is a currently inactive stratovolcano in the Cordillera Occidental range of the Andes.

(For the mountain on the border of Chile and Bolivia in the Potosí Department, Daniel Campos Province, see Iru Phutunqu (Chile-Daniel Campos).) Irruputuncu is a volcano in the commune of Pica, Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá Region, Chile, as well as San Pedro de Quemes Municipality, Nor Lípez Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia.

Huaynaputina (Spanish pronunciation: [wainapuˈtina], Pronounced: /waɪnəpʊˈtiːnə/ W'EYE-nuh-PUU-tee-NUH; from Quechua: Waynaputina, meaning "Young Volcano") is a stratovolcano in a volcanic upland in southern Peru.

Monte Burney is an ice-capped stratovolcano located 200 km northwest of the city of Punta Arenas and south of the Cordillera Sarmiento, on the Peninsula Muñoz Gamero, in the Chilean Patagonia.

Lascar, a stratovolcano, is the most active volcano of the northern Chilean Andes.

Misti, also known as Putina or Wawa Putina (Guagua Putina),is a stratovolcano of andesite, dacite and rhyolite located in southern Peru near the city of Arequipa.

The Illinizas are a pair of volcanic mountains that are located to the south of Quito, Ecuador.

Viedma (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbjeðma]) is a subglacial volcano located below the ice of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, an area disputed between Argentina and Chile.

Licancabur is a highly symmetrical stratovolcano on the southernmost part of the border between Chile and Bolivia.

Lautaro Volcano is an active ice-covered stratovolcano located in Chilean Patagonia, in the northern part of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field.

Pastos Grandes Caldera or Cerro Pastos Grandes (a resurgent centre) is an old caldera in the Potosí Department, Bolivia, which belongs to the Altiplano–Puna volcanic complex.

Yucamane or Yucamani is an andesitic stratovolcano group in southern Peru.

Payun Matru is a shield volcano in Argentina, located in the Reserva Provincial La Payunia of the Malargüe Department, to the south of the Mendoza Province.

Chachani is the highest of the mountains near the city of Arequipa in southern Peru.

Reclus is a volcano located in Southern Patagonia Ice Field, Chile.

Ticsani or Tixani is a volcano in the Andes of Peru, about 5,408 metres (17,743 ft) high.

Cerro Pantoja, also spelled as Cerro Pantojo, is an extinct basaltic stratovolcano on the border of Argentina and Chile.

Pali-Aike Volcanic Field (also spelled Palei-Aike) is a Pleistocene-to-Holocene volcanic field in Patagonia on the Argentina–Chile border, located north of the Straits of Magellan about 150 km northeast of Punta Arenas, Chile.

Tronador (in Spanish Cerro Tronador) is an extinct stratovolcano in the southern Andes, located along the border between Argentina and Chile, near the Argentine city of Bariloche.