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Arenal Volcano
Active stratovolcano in Alajuela Province, Costa Rica
Volcán Momotombo
Momotombo is a stratovolcano in Nicaragua, located near the city of León. It stands on the shores of Lake Managua. An eruption of the volcano in 1610 forced inhabitants of León, in the Spanish Empire, to relocate about west. The ruins of the city are preserved at León Viejo. It also erupted in 1886, 1905 and most recently on 30 November 2015 and 28 February 2016.
El Chichón
Mexican volcano
Concepción
Volcano in Nicaragua, Ometepe Island
Maderas
Maderas (Spanish: Volcán Maderas), also known by its aboriginal name Omeyateite from the Nawat language, is a volcano in Nicaragua. With a height of , it is the smaller of the two volcanoes which make up the island of Ometepe in Lake Nicaragua. Unlike Concepción, the other volcano on the island, Maderas has not been active in historical times. Its crater contains a crater lake.
Izalco
volcano in El Salvador
Volcán San Cristóbal
Highest volcano in Nicaragua at 1,745 m (5,725 ft).
Rincón de la Vieja Volcano
volcano in Liberia, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Volcán Mombacho
Mombacho is a stratovolcano in Nicaragua, near the city of Granada. It is high. The Mombacho Volcano Nature Reserve is one of 78 protected areas of Nicaragua. Mombacho’s last eruption occurred in 1570. There is no historical knowledge of earlier eruptions.
Telica
Volcano
Orosí Volcano
mountain
Doyle's Delight
highest peak in Belize
Victoria Peak
mountain in Belize
Chingo
Volcán Chingo is a stratovolcano on the border between Guatemala and El Salvador. The highest point on the Guatemala/ El Salvador border is Volcán Chingo at 5,823 feet. It is also known to be the second highest of a group of volcanoes in the SE Guatemala region. The population of people living within 30 km of the Volcán Chingo is estimated to be around 867,678 people. There are no historical eruptions documented for this volcano but it is currently active. The exact volcano number when trying to locate it in the Smithsonian website is 342170.thumb|This aerial view is from the SW, the Guatemala
El Jorullo
mountain in Mexico
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, 100,000-year-old stratovolcano, known as Miraflores. The last eruption is believed to have occurred around 960 BCE. At the top of the Tecuamburro is an acidic crater lake around which many hot springs, fumaroles, and boiling mudpots are found.
Chinameca
volcano
Usulután
mountain in El Salvador
San Salvador Volcano
Stratovolcano in El Salvador
Volcán Ipala
mountain in Guatemala
Chato Volcan
Inactive stratovolcano in Alajuela Province, Costa Rica
Moyuta
mountain in Guatemala
La Yeguada
mountain in Panama
Conchagua
mountain in El Salvador
Tecapa
Tecapa is a complex stratovolcano in central El Salvador.
El Valle
mountain
Guazapa
mountain
Tahual
Tahual is a stratovolcano in southern Guatemala. The highest point of the volcano is at an altitude of 1,716 m (5,630 ft) above sea level.
San Martín Tuxtla
Shield volcano in Veracruz, Mexico
Taburete
Taburete is a stratovolcano in central El Salvador, rising above the coastal plain between the San Vicente and San Miguel volcanoes, and just west of Usulután volcano. It is topped by a well-preserved, deep summit crater, with the true summit on the south side of the crater rim.
Tres Vírgenes
mountain in Mexico
Cerro de la Silla
mountain in Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Cerro Santiago
mountain
Volcán Las Pilas
volcano in Nicaragua
Alturas de Nique
mountain in Panama
Ixtepeque
Volcán Ixtepeque is a stratovolcano in southern Guatemala. The peak of the volcano lies at an altitude of 1,292 m (4,239 ft) above sea level. 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.
Volcán Jumaytepeque
mountain in Guatemala
Pico San Juan
mountain in Cuba
Cerro del Topo Chico
mountain in Nuevo León, Mexico
Volcán de Flores
mountain
Cerro Tacarcuna
mountain in Panama
Cerro Tenán
mountain in Honduras