Cerro el Ciguatepe volcano
Updated: Dec 5, 2023 01:34 GMT -
stratovolcano 603 m / 1,978 ft
Nicaragua, 12.53°N / -86.14°W
Current status: normal or dormant (1 out of 5)
Nicaragua, 12.53°N / -86.14°W
Current status: normal or dormant (1 out of 5)
Cerro el Ciguatepe volcano is located in the Nicaraguan interior highlands, east of the Nicaraguan depression and one of several Quarternary volcanoes in this area.
It contains a well-reserved 1.5 km wide summit crater, which contains a blocky lava dome and a young lava flow that has traveled from a breach in the SW side of the crater to the base of the cone.
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Cerro el Ciguatepe volcano eruptions: unknown, no recent eruptions
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Background
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.
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