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Antofagasta Region, Chile (Provincia de El Loa) / Potosí Department, Bolivia (Provincia Sur Lípez) — on the Atacama border · Chile / Bolivia
Licancabur
Licancabur is a striking, symmetrical stratovolcano straddling the Bolivia–Chile border above San Pedro de Atacama, instantly recognizable from across the Salar de Atacama. Its summit crater holds a small, extremely high-altitude freshwater lake — among the highest lakes on Earth — as well as Inca-era ceremonial ruins, evidence that the mountain was climbed and used ritually centuries before its first documented modern ascent in 1884. It is a popular, non-technical high-altitude objective typically climbed from the Bolivian side near Laguna Verde.
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