Cosigüina
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Cosigüina (also spelt Cosegüina) is a stratovolcano located in the western part of Nicaragua. It forms a large peninsula extending into the Gulf of Fonseca. The summit is truncated by a large caldera, 2 x 2.4 km in diameter and 500 m deep, holding a substantial crater lake (Laguna Cosigüina). This cone has grown within an earlier caldera, forming a somma volcano. The earlier caldera rim is still exposed on the north side, but has been buried by the younger cone elsewhere.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Cosigüina
- Mountain.photo
- Nicaragua volcan Cosigüina 5.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Cosigüina crater lake, 2009
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 872
- Mountain.location
- Chinandega Department, Nicaragua
- Mountain.map
- Nicaragua
- Mountain.map_caption
- Location in Nicaragua
- Mountain.map_size
- 240
- Mountain.label_position
- right
- Mountain.type
- Stratovolcano
- Mountain.volcanic_arc
- Central America Volcanic Arc
- Mountain.last_eruption
- August 1859
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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Cosigüina (also spelt Cosegüina) is a stratovolcano located in the western part of Nicaragua. It forms a large peninsula extending into the Gulf of Fonseca. The summit is truncated by a large caldera, 2 x 2.4 km in diameter and 500 m deep, holding a substantial crater lake (Laguna Cosigüina). This cone has grown within an earlier caldera, forming a somma volcano. The earlier caldera rim is still exposed on the north side, but has been buried by the younger cone elsewhere.
==Activity==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cosigüina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations