Cerro Chela

Chela is a volcano in Chile that was active between 3.75±0.5 and 4.11±0.25 million years ago. It is constructed on top of the 5.4±0.3 million years old rhyolitic Carcote ignimbrite. Its eruption products are mafic andesites.^[1][2]

Chela
Chela Chile
Highest point
Elevation	5,644 m (18,517 ft)[1]
Coordinates	21°24′S 68°30′W[1]
Geography
Location	Chile

The volcano was degraded by glaciation but radial ridges and red-gray rocks as well as the uniform slopes indicate that it was a symmetric stratovolcano.^[1] The Pleistocene snow line was located at 4,800 metres (15,700 ft) altitude^[3] and moraines formed on the northern, western and southern flanks. Perhaps volcanically pre-formed cirques also developed.^[4]

Cerro Chela is located south of Aucanquilcha, from which it is separated by the Portezuelo Puquíos.^[5] It forms a lineament with Cerro Carcote, Cerro Palpana, Miño Volcano and Volcan Las Cuevas that is oriented north-south.^[2]