Las Parinas

Las Parinas is in Argentina. This region belongs to the northern extreme of the Geological Province Cordillera Frontal and to the southern extreme of the Geological Province Puna. Both gather a few kilometers north of San Francisco Pass in the "Sierra de Buenaventura". The Puna shows depressions with upgoing steps to the west, separated by southward ranges which reach the 5,900 m in the East up to 6,400 m in the West.

The volcanic morphology is dominant with numerous cones and big lava deposits of different composition and pyrociastic material forming big plains such as the "Piedra Pomez" to the south of the Carachl Pampa Salt Flat.

The Cordillera Frontal has the same volcanic morphology. Here are located the two highest volcanoes of the American Continent, Pissis and Ojos del Salado. Common are also the depressions and the endorreic watersheds and lagoons, being the largest ones Laguna Verde and Aparejo. The central and eastern sector of the Cordillera Central are similar to the Puna in its physiographic shape.

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