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Descabezado Grande

3,953 m

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To the east of Talca the Region del Maule offers vast hiking opportunities exist with Volcano Descabezado being one of the more popular destinations.

Descabezado Grande is a stratovolcano located in the Maule Region of central Chile. It is capped by a 1.4-kilometre-wide (0.9 mi) ice-filled caldera and named for its flat-topped form, as descabezado means "headless" in Spanish. A smaller crater about 500 metres (1,600 ft) wide is found in the northeast part of the caldera, and it has active fumaroles.
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Map of Descabezado Grande

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