Cerro Bonete

{{short description|Mountain in Argentina}}

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| photo_caption = Bonete from the south.

| location = La Rioja, Argentina

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Cerro Bonete is a mountain in the north of the province of La Rioja, Argentina, near the provincial border with Catamarca.

Its summit is 6,759 m above mean sea level, making it the fifth-highest separate mountain in the Americas (after Aconcagua, Ojos del Salado, Monte Pissis, and Huascaran). SRTM data disproves the frequently-made claim that its summit is 6,872 m above sea level.

Within the last 3.5 million years, volcanic activity at Cerro Bonete has formed lava domes of dacite and rhyodacite.{{cite conference |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257721373 |title=Evolution of < 10 Ma Valle Ancho Region Lavas, Southern End of the Central Andean Volcanic Zone (~27.5°S) |access-date=24 March 2017 |last1=Mpodozis |first1=C. |last2=Kay |first2=S. M. |year=2009 |pages=2–3 |conference=XII Congreso Geológico Chileno |location=Santiago}}