# Solimana

- **Country:** Peru
- **Coordinates:** -15.410000, -72.893056
- **Type:** Stratovolcano
- **Range:** Andes
- **Location:** Arequipa Region
- **Map Size:** 200
- **Elevation M:** 6093
- **Parent Peak:** Coropuna
- **First Ascent:** First ascent to the main summit (central peak), 6’093m.(19’990 ft), on 1st August 1970 by Mario Bignami (CAI) Italy, and Julian Blanco Herrera, Peru.
- **Prominence M:** 1461
- **Last Eruption:** Pleistocene
- **Label Position:** left

Solimana is part of the Peruvian segment of the Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes. The Central Volcanic Zone in this segment has both generated large composite volcanoes which rise above their basement and monogenetic volcanoes and volcanic fields. This zone of volcanoes includes, from northwest to southeast, Sara Sara, Solimana, Coropuna, Andagua volcanic field, Huambo volcanic field, Ampato, Sabancaya, Cerro Nicholson, Chachani, Misti, Ubinas, Huaynaputina, Ticsani, and Tutupaca, some of which have been active during historical time.

![Photo of Solimana](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Solimana_volcano.jpg)

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