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Mocho-Choshuenco Volcano.
Stamp issued on 12.04.1962.
Face value: 2 cents of Chilean peso.
Printed by Casa de Moneda de Chile.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 162,067,901 copies.
Size: 23 x 18 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 617.
- Scott No. 326.
- StampWorld No. 597.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 492a.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 298.

Mocho-Choshuenco is a glacier covered compound stratovolcano in the Andes of Valdivia Province, in Los Ríos Region. It is made of the twin volcanoes Choshuenco in the northwest and the Mocho in the southeast. The highest parts of the volcano are part of the Mocho-Choshuenco National Reserve while the eastern slopes are partly inside the Huilo-Huilo Biological Reserve. The altitude of Choshuenco is 2,415 m (7,923 ft), and that of Mocho, 2,422 m (7,943 ft). The uppermost part of Mocho-Choshuenco is covered by an ice cap that surrounds the volcanic cone of Mocho and some flanks of Choshuenco. The first recorded eruption of the Mocho took place in 1759; the last, to date, is registered in 1937. The first climbers to reach the summits were Dr. Rudolf Haege, Kaerner and Steenbloock, in 1934.

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