Sano, Wai (Indonesia)

Status Unknown Eruption Unknown 903m
Caldera (Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km))

Wai Sano is a low, elliptical caldera, 3.5 x 2.5 km wide, at the western end of Flores Island. Wai Sano contains a large caldera lake whose surface is 260 m below the 903 m high point on the southern caldera rim. The SE caldera wall truncated the slopes of 1632-m-high Gunung Cerak. Two solfataras are located at the SE shore of the lake. No historical eruptions are known from Wai Sano, which was mapped as Holocene in age (Ratman and Yasin, 1978).

Wai Sano, the westernmost Holocene volcano on Flores Island, is a low, elliptical caldera, 3.5 x 2.5 km wide. Wai Sano contains a large caldera lake whose surface is about 640 m above sea level. The SE caldera wall truncated the slopes of 1632-m-high Gunung Cerak, and the low point on the caldera rim is on the eastern side. Two solfataras are located at the SE shore of the lake. No historical eruptions are known from Wai Sano.

Photo published in Kemnerling 1929, "Vulkanen van Flores" (courtesy of Volcanological Survey of Indonesia).

Last updated 2019-08-04 00:28:02