# Puyehue-Cordón Caulle

- **Country:** Chile
- **Coordinates:** -40.590278, -72.117222
- **Type:** Complex volcano
- **Range:** Andes
- **Highest:** Puyehue
- **Language:** Puyehue means place of small fishes in Mapudungun.
- **Location:** Lago Ranco, Río Bueno and Puyehue communes, Chile
- **Elevation M:** 2236
- **Easiest Route:** Entre Lagos – Fundo El Caulle – Puyehue's peak
- **Last Eruption:** 2011–2012
- **Volcanic Zone:** Southern Volcanic Zone

Puyehue (; ) and Cordón Caulle are two coalesced volcanic edifices that form a major mountain massif in Puyehue National Park in the Andes of Ranco Province, in the South of Chile. In volcanology this group is known as the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle Volcanic Complex (PCCVC). Four volcanoes constitute the volcanic group or complex, the Cordillera Nevada caldera, the Pliocene Mencheca volcano, Cordón Caulle fissure vents and the Puyehue stratovolcano.

![Photo of Puyehue-Cordón Caulle](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Puyehue_Cordon_Calle_2_Puyehue_NP_Chile.jpg)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyehue-Cordón_Caulle (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)