Cerro Arenales

{{short description|Mountain in Chile}}

{{Infobox mountain

| name = Cerro Arenales

| photo = Cerro Arenales.jpg

| photo_caption = The pyramidal Cerro Arenales can be seen in the center of this NASA image.

| elevation_m = 3437

| elevation_ref = {{cite gvp|vn=358059|title=Cerro Arenales|accessdate=2006-10-21}}[http://www.peaklist.org/WWlists/ultras/andes3.html "Argentina and Chile, Southern: Patagonia Ultra-Prominences"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150409044359/http://peaklist.org/WWlists/ultras/andes3.html |date=2015-04-09 }} Peaklist.org. Arenales: SRTM indicates that this summit is higher than the published 3365m value.[http://www.peaklist.org/WWlists/ultras/andes3.html#FOotnotes Note 15] Retrieved 2012-04-16.

| prominence_m = 1900

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| listing = Ultra

| map = Chile

| map_caption =

| map_size = 200

| label_position =

| location = Chile

| range = Andes

| coordinates = {{coord|47|11|45|S|73|28|06|W|type:mountain_region:CL_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

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| type = Stratovolcano

| age =

| volcanic_region = South Volcanic Zone

| last_eruption = March 1979

| first_ascent = 1958 by Tanaka and party

| easiest_route =

}}

Cerro Arenales is a heavily ice-covered mountain located in the Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region of Chile, within Laguna San Rafael National Park. It towers over the southern part of the Northern Patagonian Ice Field. Arenales has a summit elevation of 3,437 meters (11276 feet) above sea level. Whether it is a volcano is controversial.{{cite journal |last1=Stern |first1=Charles |last2=Moreno |first2=Patricio I. |last3=Henríquez |first3=William I. |last4=Villa-Martínez |first4=Rodrigo |last5=Sagredo |first5=Esteban |last6=Aravena |first6=Juan C. |last7=Pol-Holz |first7=Ricardo de |title=Holocene tephrochronology around Cochrane (~47° S), southern Chile |journal=Andean Geology |date=30 September 2015 |volume=43 |issue=1 |pages=1–19 |doi=10.5027/andgeoV43n1-a01 |url=http://www.andeangeology.cl/index.php/revista1/article/view/V43n1-a01/html |language=en |issn=0718-7106}}