Monte Vulture
| Monte Vulture | ||
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 The Vulture |
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| height | 1326 m | |
| location | Italy ( Basilicata ) | |
| Mountains | Lucanian Apennines | |
| Coordinates | 40 ° 57 '2 " N , 15 ° 38' 9" E | |
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| Type | Stratovolcano , (extinct) | |
| Age of the rock | 500,000 years | |
| Last eruption | 40,000 years ago | |
The Monte Vulture or the Vulture massif is the mountain massif of an extinct volcano in the north of the Italian province of Potenza , about 45 km north of the city of Potenza . It covers an area of about 27 km² and is therefore comparable in size to Vesuvius and the Roccamonfina massif. The heights of the Vulture are forested and thus form a striking, dark landmark that dominates the surrounding hill country. The mountain is also the namesake of the Vulture wine-growing region , which produces the Aglianico del Vulture DOC wine .
height
The highest peak of the Vulture massif is the actual Monte Vulture at 1326 m, a second south of it is the San Michele at 1262 m. In the Caldera Valle dei Grigi located on 656 m height, the Laghi di Monticchio , two electrodes separated by a land bridge Maare whose smaller, the Lago Piccolo di Monticchio , as riserva naturale regional is protected as a regional nature reserve.
history
The volcano's earliest explosive eruptions date around a million years ago and produced ignimbrite . These eruptions ended around 830,000 years ago, giving way to a mixture of pyroclastic eruptions and effusions that lasted until around 500,000 years ago. One explanation for the formation of the Valle dei Grigi is the suspected collapse of the entire western flank of the volcano, similar to what happened in 1980 with Mount St. Helens . The last phase of further lava flows, the formation of lava domes and phreatomagmatic explosions that formed the two maars, is estimated to be around 40,000 BC. Dated.
colonization
The crater's caldera forms a recreational area. The Abbazia di San Michele , an abbey that was founded in the 8th century and was expanded into a monastery with a cave church in the 11th and 12th centuries, rises up on the mountain wall above Lake Piccolo . The ruins of another monastery church of Sant'Ippolito , which was abandoned after an earthquake in 1456, are located between the two lakes. The caldera area with the town of Monticchio Laghi belongs to the municipality of Rionero in Vulture , which has around 13,000 inhabitants and whose main town extends on the eastern slope of the mountain. The village of Sant'Andrea on a southern foothill of the mountain belongs to the southeastern municipality of Atella , which has almost 4,000 inhabitants.
Abbazia San Michele
The interior of the abbey church
The maars
(Laghi di Monticchio)
Landscape around the Monte Vulture
