GVP volcano 357066 · no holder yet
Payun Matru
Payun Matru is a 3,715 m volcanic field in Argentina, last erupted around 5050 BCE.
- Type
- Volcanic field (cluster landform)
- Summit
- 3,715 m above sea level
- Rock
- Trachybasalt / Tephrite Basanite
- Setting
- Subduction zone, continental, over 25 km
- Last eruption
- 5050 BCE
- Largest known
- VEI 0, non-explosive, 5050 BCE
- Eruptions
- 1 confirmed in the record
- Where
- 36.42°S 69.24°W · Argentina
- Region
- Southern Andean Volcanic Arc, South America Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 357066
Not a hazard warning. For safety information follow the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (its directory lists the observatory for each country).