Blue sky view, from Todos Los Santos Lake, of Volcan Osorno ice cone rising above the Petrohue Hotel and lakeside dock, Chile
The 2652 metres (8701 feet) high Osorno Volcano has a classic cone, similar in appearance to Mount Fuji. The upper slopes are covered in glaciers, due to the high levels of snowfall in the very moist maritime climate of Southern Chile's Los Lagos Region. The volcano, sitting in the 6 km wide caldera of an older volcano, is known to have erupted 11 times between 1575 and 1869. Charles Darwin, in the 2nd voyage of the Beagle, saw an eruption in January 1835. Todos los Santos Lake ('All Saints Lake') is located in Chile's Region of Lakes, 76 kilometres east of Puerto Varas, in the Vicente Perez Rosales National Park. The lake has a surface area of square kilometres and a maximum depth of 337 metres. Its is surrounded by broad-leaved, evergreen, Valdivian Temperate Rain Forest. Regular boats transport tourists between the two main lake ports: Petrohue, at its western; the village of Peulla, at its eastern end. There is no road connection. It lies on the Andean Lakes route between Puerto Varas, Chile, and San Carlos de Bariloche, on Lake Nahuel Hapi, Argentina. Stratovolcanoes, composed of andesite lava, ash and pumice, are common in subduction zones, where oceanic crust is drawn down under a continent.
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Location: Volcan Osorno, Petrohue Hotel, Petrhoue, Todos Los Santos Lake, Los Lagos region, Chile
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
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