List of volcanoes in Argentina
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This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

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Name Elevation Location Last eruption
meters feet Coordinates
Antofagasta de la Sierra
Antofagasta de la Sierra
Antofagasta de la Sierra is a volcanic field in Argentina. The main type of volcanic edifice in the area are scoria cones. The area contains the youngest vents in the whole of the Puna region of Argentina. It is considered by many authors that the cones in the field are only a few thousand years...

 
4,000 13,123 26°04.8′S 67°30′W Holocene
Antofalla
Antofalla
Antofalla is a large and very remote stratovolcano in Catamarca Province in northwestern Argentina. It is located on the edge of the Puna de Atacama, a high desert plateau east of the Atacama Desert. It lies just west of the Salar de Antofalla, a large playa over in length...

 
6,440 20,013 25°31.8′S 68°00′W Unknown
Aracar
Aracar
Aracar is a large conical stratovolcano in northwestern Argentina, just east of the Chilean border. It has an uneroded summit crater about in diameter which contains a small crater lake. It is located on the edge of the Puna de Atacama, a high desert plateau east of the Atacama Desert...

 
6,082 19,954 24°16.2′S 67°46.2′W 1993
Caldera del Atuel  5,189 17,024 34°39′S 70°03′W Unknown
Cerro Bayo  5,401 17,720 25°25.2′S 68°34.8′W Holocene
Cerro El Cóndor
Cerro El Cóndor
Cerro El Cóndor is a stratovolcano in Argentina. It is a remote peak in the Argentine Puna de Atacama. As such it was probably the last major 6000m+ peak in the Andes to be climbed, the first recorded ascent being in 2003.-See also:...

 
6,532 21,430 26°37.2′S 68°21′W Holocene
Cerro Escorial  5,447 17,871 25°04.8′S 68°22.2′W Holocene
Cerro Tuzgle
Cerro Tuzgle
Cerro Tuzgle is a stratovolcano in northwestern Argentina. It is the easternmost young stratovolcano of the central Andes, located about 120 km east of the main volcanic arc....

 
5,500 18,044 24°03′S 66°28.8′W Holocene
Cerro Volcánico
Cerro Volcánico
Cerro Volcánico is a cinder cone in Argentina, located southeast of the massive stratovolcano of Tronador. The cone produced a single andesite lava flow, which has been bracketed in age between 70,000 and 14,000 years ago.-See also:...

 
1,930 6,332 41°16.8′S 71°39′W Holocene
Cochiquito Volcanic Group
Cochiquito Volcanic Group
The Cochiquito Volcanic Group is a small volcanic group of volcanoes north of the town of Buta Ranquil in Argentina. The main peak is Volcán Cochiquito, a stratovolcano of estimated Pleistocene–Holocene age. There are eight satellite cones in the volcanic field, including Volcán Sillanegra and...

 
1,435 4,708 36°46.2′S 69°49.2′W
Copahue
Copahue
Copahue is a stratovolcano on the border between Argentina and Chile. There are nine volcanic craters along a line, and the eastern summit crater contains a briny, acidic 300 m wide crater lake...

 
2,997 9,833 37°51′0"S 71°10′0"W 2000
Cordón del Azufre
Cordón del Azufre
Cordón del Azufre is a small, inactive complex volcano located on the Central Andes, at the border of Argentina and Chile.-External links:* - Volcanology at the University of North Dakota...

 
5,463 17,923 25°20′0"S 68°31′0"W
Domuyo
Domuyo
The Domuyo Volcano is a stratovolcano located in the Argentine province of Neuquén.With a height of , it is the highest mountain in Patagonia and is sometimes called the "Roof of Patagonia" ....

 
4,709 15,449 36°35′0"S 70°25′0"W
Falso Azufre  5,890 19,324 26°48′0"S 68°22′0"W Holocene
Galán
Galán
Cerro Galán is a caldera in Catamarca Province, Argentina, considered to be the best exposed large caldera in the world. It was formed 2.2 million years ago when 1,050 km3 of material was erupted, producing ignimbrite deposits stretching up to 100 km away...

 
6,100 20,013 25°55′0"S 66°52′0"W 2.2 million years ago
Huanquihue Group
Huanquihue Group
The Huanquihue Group is a group of young basaltic stratovolcanoes in Argentina near the border with Chile, south of Lanín volcano. The Huanquihue group is located south of Epulafquén Lake, north of Loglog Lake and west of Reigolil-Pirihueico Fault in Chile....

 
1,400? 4,593 39°52′0"S 71°33′0"W 1750 ± 100 years
Incahuasi
Incahuasi
Incahuasi or Nevado de Incahuasi is a mountain between the Argentine province of Catamarca, and the Atacama Region of Chile. Located at approximate coordinates , it has a height of 6,621m....

 
6,621 21,722 27°2′30"S 68°17′0"W Unknown
Lanin
Lanín
Lanín is an ice-clad, cone-shaped stratovolcano on the border of Argentina and Chile. It forms part of two national parks: Lanín in Argentina and Villarrica in Chile. It is a symbol of the Argentine province of Neuquén, being part of its flag and its anthem. Although the date of its last eruption...

 
3,747 12,293 39°37′58"S 71°29′59"W 560 ± 150 years
Lastarria
Lastarria
Lastarria, also known as Azufre, is a stratovolcano along the border of Argentina and Chile....

 
5,697 18,691 25°10′0"S 68°30′0"W Holocene
Llullaillaco
Llullaillaco
Llullaillaco is a stratovolcano at the border of Argentina and Chile. It lies in the Puna de Atacama, a region of very high volcanic peaks on a high plateau within the Atacama Desert, one of the driest places in the world...

 
6,739 22,109 24°43′0"S 68°32′0"W 1877
Maipo
Maipo (volcano)
Maipo is a stratovolcano in the Andes, lying on the border between Argentina and Chile. It is located south of Tupungato and about southeast of Santiago....

 
5,264 17,270 34°9′38"S 69°49′58"W 1908
Ojos del Salado
Ojos del Salado
Nevado Ojos del Salado is a massive stratovolcano in the Andes on the Argentina-Chile border and the highest volcano in the world at . It is also the second highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere and the highest in Chile...

 
6,887 22,595 27°7′0"S 68°33′0"W 700 AD ± 300 years
Palei-Aike Volcanic Field  282 925 52°0′0"S 70°0′0"W 5550 BC ± 1000 years
Payun Matru
Payun Matru
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....

 
3,680 12,073 36°25′0"S 69°12′0"W Holocene
Peinado  5,740 18,832 26°37′0"S 68°9′0"W Holocene
Planchón-Peteroa
Planchón-Peteroa
Planchón-Peteroa is a complex volcano extending in a north-south direction along the border between Argentina and Chile. It consists of volcanoes of various ages with several overlapping calderas...

 
4,107 13,471 35°14′24"S 70°34′12"W 2010
Puesto Cortaderas  970 3,182 37°33′0"S 69°37′0"W Holocene
Risco Plateado
Risco Plateado
Risco Plateado is a stratovolcano in Argentina. With a prominence of 1,602 meters, it is an ultra prominent peak....

 
4,999 16,401 34°56′0"S 70°0′0"W
Robledo  4,400 14,436 26°46′0"S 67°43′0"W Holocene
Sierra Nevada de Lagunas Bravas
Sierra Nevada de Lagunas Bravas
Sierra Nevada, also known as Sierra Nevada de Lagunas Bravas, is a volcanic complex which lies in both Chile and Argentina. Some of the complex is of Holocene age, but there is also an older Pleistocene volcanism evident. The older material is to the east in Argentina. The complex lies in one of...

 
6,127 20,101 26°28.8′S 68°34.8′W
Socompa
Socompa
Socompa is a large complex stratovolcano at the border of Argentina and Chile. It is best known for its large debris avalanche deposit, which is widely accepted as the best-preserved example of this type of deposit in the world, and also notable as the home of the world's most elevated known...

 
6,051 19,852 24°24′0"S 68°15′0"W 5250 BC
Tipas
Tipas
Cerro Tipas is a massive complex volcano in northwestern Argentina, located just southwest of Ojos del Salado, the highest volcano in the world. Tipas itself is perhaps the third highest active volcano in the world, and it consists of stratovolcanoes, lava domes, and lava flows.-Source:*...

 
6,660 21,850 27°12′0"S 68°33′0"W Holocene
Trocon
Trocon
Trocon is a lava dome complex in Argentina. It has two summit craters and a pyroclastic cone. It is of estimated Pleistocene-Holocene age.-References:*...

 
2,500 8,200 37°45′0"S 69°53′0"W
Tromen
Tromen
Tromen is a stratovolcano in western Argentina. It rises above the older caldera of the Volcán Negro del Tromen.-References:*...

 
3,978 13,051 37°8′30"S 70°2′0"W 1822
Viedma
Viedma (volcano)
Viedma is a subglacial volcano in southern Argentina, located below the ice of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field. The 1988 eruption deposited ash and pumice on the ice field and produced a mudflow that reached Viedma Lake....

1,500 4,921 49°21′30"S 73°17′0"W 1988
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