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Montanha do Pico - Geosite, Santa Luzia

Pico Mountain (Montanha) is the highest point of Portugal (with 2,351 m altitude) and the youngest and biggest polygenetic volcano of the Azores. At 2,050 m there is an older crater and at 2,250 m altitude, Piquinho driblet cone is nested inside a pit crater and both are affected by a late eruptive fissure, testimony of the latest volcanic activity on the Montanha summit (1,300 years B.P.). On the summit there is fumarolic activity.

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