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Hopefully we have a geology buff that will make quick work of this.

We're peering down about 900 feet from this rim. There are two of these separated by a main road.

The location or the name of this place please.

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Actually the entire landscape shown in the photo lies in the caldera of a dormant volcano.  

The subject in the center, a 1300 foot circular 900 foot deep pit, the world’s largest of its type, is not a caldera although it resulted from volcanic activity. 

This distinction is important only as a hint to its location.

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You're in the right archipelago, but the wrong island.

Sierra Negra is a volcano on Isabela Island that is active and in fact last erupted about a year or two ago.  

Hints: The feature in the photo was formed in the caldera on top of an island that IS the entire volcano. It's dormant and the last activity is thought to be at least ten thousand years ago. TMI?

And Stuart, I think you've been there. 

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Hello Wally,

That is a nice photo & a good choice of places for people to try to find. It is too bad that nobody, except you,  was able to identify it. 

Since you were the person who identified the place: Do you think that you might have another selection for us to try to locate?

Best Regards,

Michael

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On 11/20/2021 at 7:33 AM, stuny said:

Just guessing at this point - Darwin Island?

Thank you Stuart for your noble effort. 

This is one of the Los Gemelos, the twins, gigantic collapsed magma chambers, on the island of Santa Cruz, the Galapagos Archipelago. 

Please post a new photo so we can start up again.  Thank you,  Wally

 

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Thank you, Wally.  we never made it there.

Let's try this one:

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