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Nevado Ojos del Salado is a dormant complex volcano in the Andes on the Argentina–Chile border. It is the highest volcano on Earth, the highest peak in Chile and the second-highest summit of the Andes. The complex extends over an area of 27–62 square miles and its highest summit reaches an altitude of 22,615 feet above sea level. Ojos del Salado hosts the highest lake in the world in the form of the unnamed crater lake in the summit crater. It lies at 21,260–21,330 feet elevation and covers an area of 65,000 square feet. Waters in a creek flowing into this lake reach temperatures 105.4 °F. On April 21, 2007, the Chilean duo of Gonzalo Bravo and Eduardo
Canales Moya, driving a modified Suzuki Samuri, reached an altitude of 21,942
feet on Ojos del Saldo, thus setting the high-altitude record for a
four-wheeled (land) vehicle. |
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| Ojos del Salado on the Argentina-Chile border, the world's highest volcano at 22,615 feet |
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