Ciguatepe, Cerro el

sopka (bez známé erupce za posledních ~12 000 let), Nicaragua, Middle America-Caribbean Volcanic Regions

Kde

Nicaragua, Middle America-Caribbean Volcanic Regions

Typ (GVP)

Stratovolcano

Nadmořská výška

603 m

Poloha

12,535°, -86,144°

Cerro el Ciguatepe is one of several Quaternary volcanoes that lie in the Nicaraguan interior highlands, east of the Nicaraguan depression. The steep-sided stratovolcano was constructed east of the Río Pacora, NE of Lake Managua at the boundary of the flat-lying Tertiary ignimbrite deposits with the fault-blocks bordering the Nicaraguan depression. A small lava flow extends a short distance beyond the base of the cone through a breach in the SW wall of the 1.5-km-wide crater, which has a blocky dome in the center.

Text: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

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