List of volcanoes in Mexico
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This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

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Name Elevation Location Last eruption
meters feet Coordinates
Los Atlixcos  800 2625 19.809°N 96.526°W
Volcán Bárcena
Volcán Bárcena
The Bárcena volcano is classified as a dormant, or historical, cinder cone type volcano that encompasses the southern end of the San Benedicto Island, Mexico. It is grouped with a chain of volcanic islands known as the Revillagigedo Islands, Mexico. These islands are situated in close proximity to...

 
332 1089 19.30°N 110.82°W 1953
Ceboruco
Ceboruco (volcano)
Ceboruco is a dacitic stratovolcano located in Nayarit, Mexico, northwest of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. The largest eruption, the Jala Plinian eruption, was around 930 AD ±200, VEI 6, releasing of tephra...

 
2280 7480 21.125°N 104.508°W 1875
Cerro Prieto
Cerro Prieto
Cerro Prieto is a small rural town located in the county of La Misión in the northwestern part of the Mexican state of Hidalgo....

 
223 732 32.418°N 115.305°W Holocene
Chichinautzin  3930 12,894 19.08°N 99.13°W
El Chichón
El Chichón
El Chichón, also known as El Chichonal is an active volcano in Francisco León Municipality in northwestern Chiapas, Mexico. Its only recorded eruptive activity was on March 29, April 3 and April 4, 1982 , when it produced a one km-wide caldera that then filled with an acidic crater lake...

 
1060 3478 17.33°N 93.20°W 1982
Cofre de Perote
Cofre de Perote
Cofre de Perote, originally Naupa-Tecutépetl , is known also as Nauhcampatépetl. Both Nahuatl names mean something like 'Place of Four Mountain' or 'Mountain of the Lord of Four Places'...

 
4282 14,049 19.492°N 97.15°W
Colima
Colima (volcano)
The Colima Volcano is currently one of the most active volcanos in Mexico and in North America. It has erupted more than 40 times since 1576....

 
4330 14,306 19.51°N 103.62°W 2009 (continuing)
Comondú-La Purísima  780 2559 26.00°N 111.92°W
Coronado
Coronado (volcano)
Coronado is a volcano on Isla Coronado, in the state of Baja California, Mexico.Located in the Bahia de los Angeles , Isla Coronado is just off the eastern shoreline of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula, in the Gulf of California...

 
440 1444 29.08°N 113.513°W
Cuexcomate
Cuexcomate
Cuexcomate is an inactive volcano in Puebla city, Puebla state, Mexico. It stands at 13 metres with a diameter of 23 metres and is thought to be the smallest volcano on Earth....

 
13 43 19.07°N 98.24°W
Las Cumbres  3940 12,926 19.15°N 97.27°W ~3940 BC
Las Derrumbadas  ~1500 ~4921 19.20°N 97.30°W
Durango Volcanic Field  2075 6808 24.15°N 104.43°W
La Gloria Volcanic Field  3600 11,483 19.33°N 97.25°W
Guadalupe  1100 3609 29.07°N 118.28°W
Los Humeros  3150 10,335 19.68°N 97.45°W Holocene
Iztaccihuatl
Iztaccíhuatl
Iztaccíhuatl , is the third highest mountain in Mexico, after the Pico de Orizaba, , and Popocatépetl, . Its name is Nahuatl for "White woman"....

 
5286 17,342 19.2°N 98.6°W
Jaraguay Volcanic Field  960 3150 29.33°N 114.50°W Holocene
Jocotitlan
Jocotitlán
Jocotitlán is a town and municipality located in the northwestern part of the State of Mexico on the central highlands of the country of Mexico. The town is located at the foot of the Jocotitlán or Xocotépetl volcano, while most of the rest of the municipality is in the Ixtlahuaca Valley...

 
3900 12,795 19.724°N 99.757°W 1270 ± 75 years
Jorullo  3170 10,397 19.48°N 102.25°W 1774
La Malinche (volcano)  4461 14,636 19.23°N 98.03°W
Mascota Volcanic Field  2540 8399 20.62°N 104.83°W Holocene
Michoacan-Guanajuato  3860 12,664 19.48°N 102.25°W 1952
Naolinco Volcanic Field  2000 6562 19.67°N 96.75°W Holocene
Nevado de Toluca
Nevado de Toluca
Nevado de Toluca is a large stratovolcano in central Mexico, located about west of Mexico City near the city of Toluca. It is generally cited as the fourth highest of Mexico's peaks, after Pico de Orizaba, Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl, although by some measurements, Sierra Negra is slightly...

 
4690 15,354 19.108°N 99.758°W 1350 BC
Papayo  3600 11,811 19.308°N 98.70°W Holocene
Parícutin
Paricutín
Parícutin is a cinder cone volcano in the Mexican state of Michoacán, close to a lava-covered village of the same name. It appears on many versions of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World...

 
2800 2800 metres (9,186 ft) 19.5°N 102.2°W 1952
Pico de Orizaba
Pico de Orizaba
The Pico de Orizaba, or Citlaltépetl , is a stratovolcano, the highest mountain in Mexico and the third highest in North America. It rises above sea level in the eastern end of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, on the border between the states of Veracruz and Puebla...

 
5700 18,701 19.017°N 97.27°W 1687
Pinacate Peaks
Pinacate Peaks
The Pinacate Peaks are a volcanic group of volcanic peaks and cinder cones located mostly in the Mexican state of Sonora along the international border adjacent to the U.S...

 
1200 3937 31.772°N 113.498°W
Popocatepetl
Popocatépetl
Popocatépetl also known as "Popochowa" by the local population is an active volcano and, at , the second highest peak in Mexico after the Pico de Orizaba...

 
5426 17,802 19.023°N 98.622°W 2006
San Borja Volcanic Field  1360 4462 28.50°N 113.75°W Holocene
Isla San Luis  180 591 29.814°N 114.384°W Holocene
San Martin Tuxtla  1650 5413 18.57°N 95.320°W 1796
San Quintin Volcanic Field  260 853 30.468°N 115.996°W Holocene
Sanganguey  2353 7677 21.45°N 104.73°W 1742
Serdan-Oriental  3485 11,434 19.27°N 97.47°W Holocene
Socorro  1050 3445 18.78°N 110.95°W 1993
Tacaná  4060 13,320 15.13°N 92.11°W 1986
Tilzapotla 
Isla Tortuga  210 689 27.392°N 111.858°W Holocene
Tres Virgenes
Tres Virgenes
Tres Virgenes is a complex of volcanoes located Mulegé Municipality in the state of Baja California Sur, on the Baja California Peninsula in northwestern Mexico...

 
1940 6365 27.42°N 112.59°W 1857
Zitacuaro-Valle de Bravo  3500 11,483 19.40°N 100.25°W

See also


Category: Volcanism of Mexico
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