Cinotepeque, Cerro (El Salvador)

Status Unknown Eruption Unknown 665m
Volcanic field (Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km))

Cinotepeque, Cerro

Cerro Cinotepeque is the largest and most prominent of a group of four pyroclastic cones of Holocene age mapped by Weber and Weismann (1978) in low-lying areas on either side of the Río Lempa, about 40 km N of San Salvador. Cinotepeque (also spelled Cinotepec) lies south of the river; two other cones, Cerro Santiago and Cerro Mosquito, lie immediately north of the river. A fourth cone is located along the Río Gualchayo about 10 km farther north. A large group of small Pleistocene stratovolcanoes and pyroclastic cones constructed along NW-SE-trending faults is located west and south of Cinotepeque and west of Guazapa volcano.

Cerro El Chino, also known as La Hedionda, is seen here from the east, just south of the town of Aguilares. This pyroclastic cone of Pleistocene age is part of the Cerro Cinotepeque volcanic field, a large group of small Pleistocene-to-Holocene stratovolcanoes and pyroclastic cones constructed along NW-SE-trending faults on either side of the Río Lempa west of Guazapa volcano. The Holocene cone of Cerro Cinotepeque lies about 6 km NW of Cerro El Chino.

Photo by Giuseppina Kysar, 1999 (Smithsonian Institution).

Last updated 2019-08-04 00:28:03

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