San Francisco Pass it passes next to Maricunga's salt flat on the Nevado Tres Cruces National Park and Laguna Verde. The area is surrounded by volcanoes and high peaks as the Cerro Falso Azufre (), the volcano San Francisco (), the Incahuasi () and highest volcano in the world, Nevado Ojos del Salado (), among others. San Francisco Pass The San Francisco Pass is a pass over the Andes mountains which connects Argentina and Chile. The highest point of this pass is at AMSL. The pass is located at and connects the Argentine province of Catamarca with the Atacama Region in Chile. In
Nevado San Francisco They are noteworthy for their olivine phenocrysts. One lava flow less than one million years old reaches a length of . The western slopes contain dacitic lava domes. On the summit lie two circle-shaped constructs, of Inca or Formative period ages. Nevado San Francisco Nevado San Francisco, or Cerro San Francisco (), is a stratovolcano on the border between Argentina and Chile, located just southeast of San Francisco Pass. It is considered extinct and is one of the several peaks in the area, of which the chief is the Ojos del Salado. The volcano is part of the Central Volcanic