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Sabancaya, located in the saddle NE of Ampato and SE of Hualca Hualca volcanoes, is the youngest of these volcanic centers and the only one to have erupted in historical time. The oldest of the three, Nevado Hualca Hualca, is of probable late-Pliocene to early Pleistocene age. The name Sabancaya (meaning

Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Program Collage

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Holocene volcanoes. Source: Olivier Santoni (CERDI) using data

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Timeline of eruption history based on the Global Volcanism Program

Timeline of eruption history based on the Global Volcanism Program

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