Ampato, Mount (Arequipa, Peru)

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Name (Latin)
Ampato, Mount (Arequipa, Peru)
Other forms of name
Mount Ampato (Arequipa, Peru)
Nevado Ampato (Arequipa, Peru)
Nudo de Ampato (Arequipa, Peru)
Coordinates
-71.88333333 -71.88333333 -15.81666667 -15.81666667 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing topical name
Mountains Peru
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q474428
Library of congress: sh 97004744
Sources of Information
  • Work cat.: 97-23372: Buell, J. Ice maiden of the Andes, 1997.
  • LatinoLink: Archaeologists find 500 year old Inca WWW Site, June 13, 1997(Mount Ampato)
  • Geography in the News WWW Site, June 13, 1997(Mount Ampato)
  • The Mountain Institute: The Ampato Ice Maiden WWW Site, June 13, 1997.
  • GEOnet, Oct. 27, 1997(Ampato, Nevado [Arequipa]; variant: Ampato, Nudo de; also Ampato, Cerro [Pasco])

Wikipedia description:

Ampato (possibly from Quechua hamp'atu or from Aymara jamp'atu, both meaning "frog") is a dormant 6,288-metre (20,630 ft) stratovolcano in the Andes of southern Peru. It lies about 70–75 kilometres (43–47 mi) northwest of Arequipa and is part of a north-south chain that includes the volcanoes Hualca Hualca and Sabancaya, the last of which has been historically active. Ampato consists of three volcanic cones, which lie on top of an older eroded volcanic edifice. They were formed sequentially by extrusion of lava flows, but Ampato has also had explosive eruptions which have deposited ash, lapilli and pumice in the surrounding landscape. One young lava flow has been dated to 17,000 ± 6,000 years before present, but a summit lava dome is even younger, and Holocene ash layers in surrounding peat bogs may testify to the occurrence of recent eruptions. The present-day volcano is covered by an ice cap, and during the Last Glacial Maximum glaciers advanced to low altitudes. In 1995, an Inca mummy known as Mummy Juanita was discovered on Ampato by Johan Reinhard; it had been offered as a human sacrifice around five hundred years earlier on the mountain.

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