List of volcanoes in Guatemala
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This is a list of active, dormant, and extinct volcanoes in Guatemala
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Name | Elevation (m) |
Elevation (ft) |
Coordinates | Last eruption |
Acatenango Acatenango Acatenango is a stratovolcano in Guatemala, close to the city of Antigua. The volcano has two peaks, Pico Mayor and Yepocapa which is also known as Tres Hermanas... |
3976 | 13,044 | 14°30′02"N 90°52′33"W | 1972 |
Agua Volcán de Agua Volcán de Agua is a stratovolcano located in the department of Sacatepéquez in Guatemala. It has been inactive since the mid 16th century. At 3,760 metres, Agua Volcano towers more than 3,500 metres above the Pacific coastal plain to the south and 2,000 metres above the Guatemalan... |
3760 | 12,336 | 14°27′53"N 90°44′35"W | Holocene |
Almolonga Almolonga The Almolonga volcano, sometimes also called "Cerro Quemado" , is an andesitic stratovolcano in the south-western department of Quetzaltenango in Guatemala... |
3197 | 10,489 | 14°49′00"N 91°29′00"W | 1818 |
Atitlán Volcán Atitlán Volcán Atitlán is a large, conical, active stratovolcano adjacent to the caldera of Lake Atitlán in the Highlands of Guatemala. The volcano has been quite active historically, with more than a dozen eruptions recorded between 1469 and 1853, the date of its most recent eruption. Atitlán is part of... |
3535 | 11,598 | 14°34′58"N 91°11′11"W | 1853 |
Chingo Chingo Volcán Chingo is a stratovolcano in southeastern Guatemala, on the border with El Salvador.... |
1775 | 5823 | 14°07′00"N 89°44′00"W | Holocene |
Cerro Santiago Cerro Santiago Cerro Santiago is one of the most prominent cinder cones of a volcanic field surrounding the city of Jutiapa in southern Guatemala.... |
1192 | 3911 | 14°20′00"N 89°52′00"W | Holocene |
Cerro de Oro | 1892 | 6207 | 14°39′50"N 91°10′41"W | |
Chicabal | 2900 | 9514 | 14°47′00"N 91°40′00"W | - |
Chiquimula Volcanic Field Chiquimula Volcanic Field The Chiquimula Volcanic Field is a located in the Chiquimula valley in southern Guatemala.... |
1192 | 3911 | 14°50′00"N 89°33′00"W | Holocene |
Coxóm Cerro de Coxóm Cerro de Coxóm is a stratovolcano in Totonicapán in western Guatemala. The high volcano is located at the eastern edge of the valley of Quetzaltenango.... |
3045 | 10007 | 14°53′15"N 91°23′52"W | |
Cuilapa-Barbarena | 1454 | 4770 | 14°20′00"N 90°24′00"W | Holocene |
Flores Volcán de Flores Volcán de Flores is the most prominent stratovolcano in a volcanic field composed of several small volcanoes in southern Guatemala. It is located approximately 10 km west of the city of Jutiapa.- References :*... |
1600 | 5249 | 14°18′28"N 89°59′32"W | Holocene |
Fuego Volcán de Fuego Volcán de Fuego is an active stratovolcano in Guatemala. It is close to the city of Antigua Guatemala. It has erupted frequently since the Spanish conquest. "Fuego" is famous for being almost constantly active at a low level. Smoke issues from its top daily, but larger eruptions are rare. On... |
3763 | 12,346 | 14°28′22"N 90°52′49"W | 2011 |
Ipala Ipala (volcano) Volcán Ipala is a stratovolcano in south-eastern Guatemala. It has a wide summit crater which contains a crater lake , whose surface lies about below the crater rim. Volcán Ipala is part of a cluster of small stratovolcanoes and cinder cone fields in south-eastern Guatemala.... |
1650 | 5413 | 14°33′00"N 89°38′00"W | Holocene |
Ixtepeque Ixtepeque Volcán Ixtepeque is a stratovolcano in southern Guatemala. It consists of several rhyolitic lava domes and basaltic cinder cones.Its name is derived from the nahuatl word for obsidian. Ixtepeque was one of the most important obsidian sources in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.... |
1292 | 4239 | 14°25′00"N 89°41′00"W | Holocene |
Jumaytepeque Volcán Jumaytepeque Volcán Jumaytepeque is a stratovolcano in south-eastern Guatemala. The high volcano is located about 7 km north-north-east of the city of Cuilapa, near the south-eastern rim of the large Miocene Santa Rosa de Lima caldera.... |
1815 | 5955 | 14°20′08"N 90°16′10"W | Holocene |
Moyuta Moyuta (volcano) Moyuta is a stratovolcano in southern Guatemala. It is located near the town of Moyuta in Jutiapa Department, and is situated at the southern edge of the Jaltapagua fault. The volcano has an elevation of 1662 m and its summit is formed by three andesitic lava domes. The slopes of the volcano... |
1662 | 5453 | 14°02′00"N 90°06′00"W | |
Pacaya Pacaya Pacaya is an active complex volcano in Guatemala, which first erupted approximately 23,000 years ago and has erupted at least 23 times since the Spanish conquest of Guatemala. Pacaya rises to an elevation of . After being dormant for a century, it erupted violently in 1965 and has been... |
2552 | 8373 | 14°22′51"N 90°36′04"W | 2011 |
Quezaltepeque Quezaltepeque (volcano) Quezaltepeque is a volcanic field in Chiquimula, Guatemala at . It has erupted in the Holocene. It is an area of basaltic lava flows was erupted from vents along a north-south trending fault without explosions, cutting through Tertiary pyroclastic rocks WNW of Ipala volcano about 5 km south of... |
1200 | 3937 | 14°34′00"N 89°27′00"W | Holocene |
San Pedro | 3020 | 9908 | 14°39′21"N 91°15′57"W | |
Santa María | 3772 | 12,375 | 14°45′21"N 91°33′06"W | 2011 |
Santo Tomas | 3542 | 11,621 | 14°42′37"N 91°28′43"W | 84,000 years ago |
Siete Orejas Volcán Siete Orejas Volcán Siete Orejas is a stratovolcano in Guatemala located in the department of Quetzaltenango The volcano has 7 peaks, set around a large crater of which the southern side appears to have collapsed... |
3370 | 11060 | 14°48′53"N 91°37′04"W | - |
Suchitán | 2042 | 6699 | 14°24′00"N 89°47′00"W | 1469 |
Tacaná Volcán Tacaná The Tacaná Volcano is the second highest peak in Central America at . It is located in the Tacaná municipality of the Guatemalan department of San Marcos, and in Cacahoatán Municipality and Unión Juárez Municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas.... |
4060 | 13,320 | 15°07′48"N 92°06′45"W | 1986 |
Tahual | 1716 | 5630 | 14°26′00"N 89°54′00"W | Holocene |
Tajumulco Volcán Tajumulco Volcán Tajumulco is a large stratovolcano in the department of San Marcos in western Guatemala. It is the highest mountain in Guatemala and Central America at... |
4220 | 13,845 | 15°02′04"N 91°54′12"W | 1863 |
Tecuamburro Tecuamburro Tecuamburro is a stratovolcano in southern Guatemala, roughly 50 kilometres south east of Guatemala City. The Tecuamburro is an andesitic stratovolcano which formed approximately 38,000 years ago inside a horseshoe-shaped caldera formed by a structural failure in a second,... |
1845 | 6053 | 14°09′22"N 90°24′25"W | 960 BC ± 75 years |
Tolimán Volcán Tolimán Tolimán is a stratovolcano in Guatemala, on the southern shores of Lago de Atitlán. The volcano has an elevation of 3,158 m and was formed near the southern margin of the Pleistocene Atitlán III caldera. The top of the volcano has a shallow crater and its flanks are covered with the thick remains... |
3158 | 10,361 | 14°36′45"N 91°11′21"W | Holocene |
See also
- Central America Volcanic Arc
- List of volcanoes in El Salvador
- List of volcanoes in Honduras
- List of volcanoes in Mexico