Taftan Volcano

Taftan and heights around it, are known as heights of Khash area located at Iran's Sistan and Beluchistan province. The province of Sistan and Baluchistan is located in the south-eastern part of the Iran and has an area of 181, 578 sq.km. Though it is the third largest province of the country, it is sparsely populated. Anyway Taftan semi-active volcano is one of the attractions of the province.

"Taftan" means hot and molten, something that has got hot under the the sun or on the fire, well this is not a strange name for this semi-active volcano.

From viewpoint of geology in quaternary, there have been the volcanoes in Iran which their peaks are constitute important heights today. Presently, some of those volcanoes are in sulfur producing stage and so steam and sulfuric gases come out of their craters. Mount Taftan is one of these volcanoes located in southeast of Iran 380 km. north of the Oman Sea, so far from Tehran. 

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