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Mount Garibaldi is a dormant stratovolcano in southwestern British Columbia and one of the principal volcanoes of the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt. Built mainly of dacite through intermittent eruptions over roughly the last 260,000 years, it was shaped both by volcanism and glaciation, with later collapses on its western flank sending debris into the Squamish Valley. Its subpeaks include Atwell Peak, Dalton Dome, and Opal Cone. Long part of Indigenous country, it is known in Squamish oral history as Nch'ḵay̓. Named in 1860 for Giuseppe Garibaldi, it became a mountaineering destination by the early 20th century and remains important today, though future eruptions could threaten nearby communities.
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