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Chachani, Peru ESA413331
2018-12-07
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- File:Chachani, Peru ESA413331.tiff
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 3.0 igo, as the museum states it.
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- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
About this work
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Chachani mountain in Peru (shown in the centre of the image). Standing at over 6,057 m, Chachani is the tallest of the three vulcanos near the Peruvian city of Arequipa. The other are Misti, 5,822 m (seen in the lower right corner of the image) and Pichu Pichu, 5,665 m (southeast of Misti, outside the picture). The outskirts of the city and part of the airport runway are just visible in the centre bottom of the image. The city is home to around 900 000 people and is renowned for its dramatic cityscape, surrounded by three volcanoes.
Arequipa is also known as la Ciudad Blanca or the White City thanks to the prevalence of baroque buildings carved from white volcanic sillar stone in its centre. The volcanoes, overlooking the city, naturally form an important part of the city’s identity. Heavy shades of red, showing vegetated areas, dominate this false-colour image. The varying tones represent different vegetation types, at different stages in the annual vegetation cycle. The near-infrared channel of Copernicus Sentinel-2 has been used to achieve this false-colour effect. A number of crops are grown in this area, including maize,…
