The Santa Margarida Volcano ( ca, Volcà de Santa Margarida) is an extinct

volcano A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates ...

in the

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Garrotxa Garrotxa () is a comarca (county) in Girona, Catalonia, Spain. Its population in 2016 was 55,999, more than half of them in the capital city of Olot. It is roughly equivalent to the historical County of Besalú. Geography Garrotxa borders ...

Catalonia Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a '' nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the no ...

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. The volcano has a

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of 2 kilometers and a height of 682 meters and is part of the Zona Volcànica de la Garrotxa Natural Park. The hermitage of Santa Margarida, after which the volcano was named, is inside the crater of the volcano. The building was destroyed in 1428 during the

1428 Catalonia earthquake The Catalan earthquake of February 2, 1428, known in Catalan as the ' because it took place during Candlemas, struck the Principality of Catalonia, especially Roussillon, with an epicentre near Camprodon. The earthquake was one of a series of re ...

and rebuilt in 1865.

Geology

A study published in 2011 at the

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indicated that the Santa Margarida and

Croscat The Croscat () is a volcano in the comarca of Garrotxa, Catalonia, Spain. It is both the youngest and highest volcano in the Iberian Peninsula, with the last eruption dated back to about 14,000 years Before Present. The volcanic cone has a horsesho ...

volcanoes were the product of the same eruption event 11,500 years ago, alternating freatomagmatic activity, between water and

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, and

tic activity.

Gallery

File:Santa Margarida (Garrotxa).jpg, The hermitage of Santa Margarida in the crater of the volcano.

References

External links

{{commons category, Santa Margarida Volcano
Official WebsiteOlot Volcanic Field - Global Volcanism Program
Garrotxa Mountains of Catalonia Volcanoes of the Mediterranean Sea Volcanoes of Catalonia

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