File:Cotahuasi Canyon Oblique.jpg
On June 3, 2016, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 passed over the canyon. The top image shows Landsat data draped over topographic data from NASA’s Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). The second image is a nadir (straight down) view from OLI of the area near the town of Cotahuasi.
Evidence of volcanic activity surrounds the canyon. To the south, snow-capped Solimana, an inactive stratovolcano that last erupted about 500,000 years ago, soars above the plateau. Colorful yellow and orange volcanic deposits are visible around the north rim of the canyon.
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