Acotango

Acotango ( in the middle)

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The Cerro Acotango is a 6,052 m high stratovolcano on the border between western Bolivia and northern Chile. It is located 160 km east of Arica in the Lauca National Park in the Cordillera Occidental mountain range in the central Andes.

He, together with the two volcanoes Humarata and Cerro Capurata the Quimsachata volcano group. Kimsachata means " three brothers " in the Aymara language. The Acotango is the average and highest of the three stratovolcanoes.

The Acotango is regarded as an active volcano, its main activity is back an estimated 10,000 years. The southern flank of the volcano is covered by a glacier, which would represent with a renewed eruption of the volcano is a latent danger of landslides and floods.

The Chilean researcher Pedro Rosende reported by remnants of fire wood on the top of Acotango, is suspected that the Acotango, was perhaps a sacred site at the time of the Incas.