Coatepeque, El Salvador

Location: 13.9N, 89.6W
Elevation: 2,447 feet (746 m)



Coatepeque is a Holocene caldera. There has been no volcanic activity at Coatepeque in historic time.


Photographs by Steve O'Meara of Volcano Watch International.


Sources of Information:

McClelland, L., Simkin, T., Summers, M., Nielsen, E., and Stein, T.C., 1989, Global Volcanism 1975-1985: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice Hall, 655 p.

Simkin, T., and Siebert, L., 1994, Volcanoes of the World: Geoscience Press, Tucson, Arizona, 349 p.



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