Risco Plateado, Argentina

Stratovolcano · 4,999 m (16,401 ft)

Risco Plateado is a stratovolcano in Argentina, 4,999 m (16,401 ft) high. Its last known eruption: an uncertain Holocene eruption. NOAA records no significant eruption here.

Risco Plateado on the map

Risco Plateado and the volcanoes within 300 km, colored by when each last erupted.

Since 1964
1900 to 1963
1800s
AD 1 to 1799
Before AD 1, or undated

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The volcano

Type: Stratovolcano
Elevation: 4,999 m (16,401 ft)
Country: Argentina
Summit: 34.917° S, 69.981° W
Last known eruption: An uncertain Holocene eruption
Holocene activity known from: Holocene?
Smithsonian volcano number: 357024

Significant eruptions

NOAA records eruptions that killed, did damage, were very large, or set off a tsunami or earthquake.

None on record.

Around it

The volcanoes within 300 km.

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Sources

Volcanoes and significant eruptions from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-09-24. Volcano numbers are the Smithsonian Institution’s Global Volcanism Program’s.