Nuevo Mundo volcano

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The Nuevo Mundo (also: Jatun Mundo Khori Huarani ) is a stratovolcano in the Andean highlands of South American landlocked country like Bolivia.

Location

The volcano Nuevo Mundo is a volcanic cone on the edge of the Cordillera de Lípez in the department of Potosí in the central Altiplano region between the cities of Potosi and Uyuni. With a height of 5,438 meters, it rises to about 700 meters from the Los Frailes plateau.

Discovery history

The first mountain climb in the region found by the Frenchman Georges Courty before 1903 instead of whose records in the 1987 published book " Mountaineering in the Andes " by Jill Neate find: " Nuevo Mundo, 6020 m, position unknown. "

The German geologist Frederic Ahlfeld, an avid mountain climber, retired in 1924 after Bolivia and began after the second world war with the exploration of the mountain peaks in the Potosí Department, some of which he also ascended. In a letter of 1962 to the historian Evelio Echevita he mentioned that in respect to the said Georges Courty height two peaks of the Cordillera de Lípez as " Nuevo Mundo " might come into question.

In 1969, however Ahlfeld presented in his book " Geografia Fisica de Bolivia " in a drawing the Nuevo Mundo with a height of 5438 meters before and described his location southwest of Potosí directly north of the town Potoco, so far away from the Cordillera de Lípez.

End of the 1990s, Toto Aramayo, Yossi Brain and Dakin Cook went on to search for the Nuevo Mundo and localized it to the coordinates 19 ° 47'0 " south latitude and 66 ° 29'0 " west longitude. The Bolivian government and the USGS recognize this today as the correct position of the Nuevo Mundo, even if some newer cards still refer to the Cerro Lípez as Nuevo Mundo.

Geology

The volcanic cone of Nuevo Mundo consists mainly of ash and pumice today. At the base there was in prehistoric times two outlets of lava along a north- south trending fault line, apparently simultaneously with rock and ash ejection in an easterly direction. From a later period comes to an explosive Plinian eruption, the ash fall has been worn more than 200 km to the east, up to the region of present-day Potosí - an outbreak that occurred before the arrival of the Spaniards ( 1533), but in historical times needs. Because while had been formed by previous eruptions of Kari Kari caldera of Cerro Wila Kkolu, Cerro Condor Nasa, Cerro Villacolo and Cerro Pampa Huanapa the Los Frailes plateau, the plateau was the last outbreak of the Nuevo Mundo in the Holocene by powerful ignimbrite layers covered, which consist primarily of pyroclastic material from dacite and andesite.

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