Indonesia is one of the countries that has the most volcanoes in the world, this is due to Indonesia's geographical location which is crossed by two young mountain paths, namely the Pacific Circum and the Mediterranean Circum. But do you know, where is the highest volcano in the world?
At least, there are five volcanoes called the highest in the world in these countries, citing data on the Global Volcanism Program website of the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History.
#5 Mount Coropuna
Coropuna is an active compound volcano located in the Andes mountains in southeast-central Peru. The top of Coropuna consists of several conical peaks that are always covered with snow, giving it the name Nevado Coropuna in Spanish. This mountain was considered sacred by the Incas.
This mountain complex stretches over an area of 240 square kilometers and its highest peak reaches a height of 6,377 meters above sea level. Coropuna is also the third highest mountain in Peru.
Its thick ice sheet is the widest in Earth's tropical zone, with some of the outward glaciers extending to lower elevations. Below 5,000 meters elevation, there are various vegetation belts that include trees, peat swamps, grasses as well as agricultural areas and grasslands .
#4 Mount Nevado Incahuasi
Nevado Incahuasi is a volcanic mountain in the Andes, South America, located on the border of Argentina's Catamarca Province and Chile's Atacama Region. Incahuasi has a peak height of 6,638 meters above sea level.
The volcano consists of a 3.5 kilometer wide caldera and two stratovolcanos. Four pyroclastic cones located 7 kilometers to the northeast have produced basalt-andesite lava flows covering an area of 10 square kilometers.
#3 Mount Tipas
Tipas volcano is located in a large complex of mountains in the Andes, which is located in northwestern Argentina. This mountainous complex covers a surface area of 25 square kilometers, consisting of stratovolcanoes, lava domes and lava flows. Tipas has a height of about 6,658 meters above sea level.
In 2013, it was reported that there was a crater lake with a sulfur smell. The Tipas-Cerro Bayo complex is estimated to have been active 2.9 million to 1.2 million years ago with dacite and rhyolite materials. Tomographic studies of the bottom crust indicate a pattern of seismic attenuation beneath Tipas.
#2 Mount Llullaillaco
Llullaillaco is a stratovolcano on the border of Argentina (Salta Province) and Chile. The mountain is located in Puna de Atacama, a region of very high volcanic peaks on a plateau in the Atacama Desert, one of the driest places in the world. This mountain has a height of 6,739 meters.
#1 Mount Nevado Ojos del Salado
Nevado Ojos del Salado is a large stratovolcano located in the Andes Mountains on the Argentina-Chile border, and is the highest volcano in the world with a height of 6879 meters.
Due to its proximity to the Atacama Desert, the mountain's climate is very dry with snow that is generally only found at its peak during winter. However, if there is a strong storm then snow can also cover the surrounding area even in the summer.
Although conditions are generally dry, there is a crater lake with a diameter of 100 meters located at an altitude of 6390 meters, to be precise on the east side of Ojos del Salado. Thus, this lake is arguably the highest lake for all types of lakes in the world.
The name Ojos del Salado is of Spanish origin, which means "eye of salt". It is named because of the large number of salt deposits, in the form of lagoons or "eyes", that appear between the glaciers.