Caichinque

{{Short description|Mountain in Chile}}

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| name = Caichinque

| photo = Salar de Talar.jpg

| photo_caption = The volcanic complex is in the mid-distance. The snow-patched mountain looming over Caichinque is Pular.

| elevation_m = 4450

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| location = Chile

| range = Andes

| coordinates = {{coord|23|57|0|S|67|44|0|W|type:mountain}}

| type = Stratovolcanoes

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Image:Caichinque.jpg

Caichinque is a volcanic complex lying between Salar de Talar and Salar de Capur, in the high Andean plateau of the Antofagasta Region, in Chile. It is located southwest of the Salar de Atacama, directly S of Cerro Miñiques and SE of Cordón Puntas Negras forming part of the main branch of the Andean volcanic chain in this area.

Route CH-23 is an approach road to the volcano area and could be impacted by eruptions.

The volcano has erupted rocks with composition ranging from basalt to dacite. It grew atop a rhyodacitic ignimbrite.{{cite report|language=es|url=https://biblioteca.sernageomin.cl/opac/datafiles/CGCH_GAMB_17_TextoyMapa.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210629145638/https://biblioteca.sernageomin.cl/opac/datafiles/CGCH_GAMB_17_TextoyMapa.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 29, 2021|access-date=20 August 2021|issn=0717-7305|publisher=SERVICIO NACIONAL DE GEOLOGÍA Y MINERÍA|title=Peligros volcánicos de la Zona Norte de Chile|first1=Álvaro R.|last1=Amigo|first2=Daniel U.|last2=Bertin|first3=Gabriel L.|last3=Orozco|year=2012|series=Carta geológica de Chile: Serie Geología Ambiental|volume=17|page=20}}

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