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Incahuasi, a volcanic mountain on the border of Argentina and Chile


Sitting not far from the highest active volcano on Earth, Incahuasi doesn’t need record-breaking elevations to make an impression (although it does rise a very respectable 21,722 feet above sea level). Nor does it need to be an active volcano (no eruptions are thought to have occurred during the Holocene epoch). Incahuasi’s magnificence comes primarily from its sheer presence, looming over the flatlands of Chile’s Atacama Desert and the foothills of Catamarca Province in Argentina. This border-straddling mountain is part of a line of mighty massifs marching across South Amer
ica: the 
Andes range

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