Tata Sabaya

Tata Sabaya (center right) between the three at the Cabaraya and the two peaks of Cerro Pariani and Cerro Pumiri ( right) ( photo of the ISS Expedition 9)

The Tata Sabaya is a 5,385 m high inactive stratovolcano in the Andes of South America Bolivia - State.

The Tata Sabaya is located on the Bolivian Altiplano at the northern edge of the salt lake Salar de Coipasa in the municipality of Sabaya in the Province of Atahuallpa in the department of Oruro. The Tata Sabaya is a peak in a chain of volcanoes which begins in the west with the Chilean volcano Isluga ( 5577 m) and through the Tripartite Summit of Cabaraya ( 5869 m) and the Tata Sabaya to Cerro Pariani ( 5077 m) extends.

The date of its origin is unknown, due to its well-preserved outer form it can be dated to the Holocene. The last activity of the volcano dates back to 1995, when had formed over the top of a small cloud of steam from a fumarole.

The Tata Sabaya presents itself today in a multi-stage structure. The basis is a pyroclastic shield volcano, to which then a stratovolcano has set. The most striking activity of the volcano from the past is a 300- km ² large field of debris, which extends in a southerly direction from the Tata Sabaya from. Lava flows from the recent history extending over the western and north-western flank of the volcano, the collapse of the summit has led to deposits especially on the southwest side of the mountain.