Cerro Toco

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Cerro Toco is a stratovolcano located in the eastern part of the Atacama Desert in Chile's II Region (Antofagasta), approximately Script error: No such module "convert". south of the border between Bolivia and Chile and Script error: No such module "convert". SE of the Juriques and Licancabur volcanoes. It conforms the north eastern extreme of the Purico Complex, a pyroclastic shield made up by several stratovolcanoes, lava domes and a maar.

Cerro Toco is located in the Chajnantor Scientific Reserve, as is most of the Purico Complex. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope and the Huan Tran Telescope are located on the western side of the mountain at approximately Script error: No such module "convert"..

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View from the top of Cerro Toco toward northwest. Volcanoes Licancabur (between the sticks) and Juriques are visible, as well as Laguna Blanca in Bolivia.

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