Licancabur (Bolivia)Summit Elevation: 5916 mLatitude: 22.83°S Longitude: 67.88°W The symmetrical Licancaburstratovolcano was constructedprimarily during the Holocene andcontains one of the world's highestlakes in its 400-m-wide summit crater.The Pleistocene Juriques volcano islocated immediately to the SE and iscapped by a 1.5-km-wide summitcrater. Archaeological ruins werefound on the 5916-m-high crater rimof the steep-sided Volcán Licancabur,which maintains constant 30 degreeslopes. The shallow freshwatersummit lake is 90 m by 70 m wide and has a measured temperature of 6 degrees C,supporting growth of planktonic fauna at nearly 6000 m altitude. Young blockyandesitic lava flows with prominent levees extend up to 6 km down the NW-to-SWflanks; older flows reach up to 15 km from the summit crater and are covered bypyroclastic-flow deposits that extend 12 km. The most recent activity from Licancaburproduced flank lava flows. (Global Volcanic Program)PanoramaHOMEclick on pictures to enlargeclick on panorama