Isluga

The village Isluga and the volcano Isluga

The volcano Isluga is a 5,577 m high stratovolcano in northern Chile, seven kilometers away from the border to western Bolivia. It is located 175 km southeast of Arica in the 1747 square kilometer national park in the mountains Cordillera Occidental Volcán Isluga in the Central Andes. The Isluga forms the western end of a chain of volcanoes that over the top of the Dreier Cabaraya ( 5869 m) and the Tata Sabaya ( 5385 m) to the Cerro Pariani ( 5077 m) in Bolivia covers.

The Isluga one of the most active volcanoes in the past 150 years, it has several major eruptions in 1868, 1869, 1877 and 1878, and several smaller eruptions in 1863, 1885 and 1913. Were In the Lavaausbruch in 1878 different villages destroyed at the foot of the mountain. An activity of Isluga from 1960 is confirmed in detail.