# Tupungato

- **Country:** Argentina
- **Coordinates:** -33.358333, -69.770000
- **Age:** Pleistocene
- **Type:** Lava dome
- **Range:** Principal Cordillera, Andes
- **Listing:** Ultra
- **Location:** Mendoza Province, Argentina – Metropolitan Region, Chile
- **Elevation M:** 6570
- **First Ascent:** 1897 by Matthias Zurbriggen and Stuart Vines
- **Prominence M:** 2765
- **Last Eruption:** 0.8 million years ago.
- **Volcanic Zone:** South Volcanic Zone

Tupungato, one of the highest mountains in the Americas, is a massive Andean lava dome dating to Pleistocene times. It lies on the Argentina–Chile border, between the Chilean Metropolitan Region (near a major international highway about east of Santiago) and the Argentine province of Mendoza, about south of Aconcagua, the highest peak of both the Southern and Western hemispheres. Immediately to its southwest is the active Tupungatito volcano (literally, little Tupungato), which last erupted in 1987.

![Photo of Tupungato](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/2019-10-31_13-49-02_Tupungato.jpg)

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