Volcán Apoyeque
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Apoyeque is a pyroclastic shield, located in the Chiltepe Peninsula Natural Reserve in Nicaragua. It has a 2.8-km wide, 400-m-deep, lake-filled caldera.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Apoyeque
- Mountain.photo
- Apoyeque nicaragua location map.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Map of Nicaragua, showing location of Chiltepe peninsula and Nicaragua volcanic front.
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 518
- Mountain.location
- Nicaragua
- Mountain.type
- Pyroclastic shield
- Mountain.volcanic_arc
- Central America Volcanic Arc
- Mountain.last_eruption
- 50 BC ± 100 years
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Apoyeque is a pyroclastic shield, located in the Chiltepe Peninsula Natural Reserve in Nicaragua. It has a 2.8-km wide, 400-m-deep, lake-filled caldera.
==Geography== thumb|right|The Chiltepe Peninsula and the Apoyeque caldera, view from the International Space Station|ISS. Apoyeque is a volcanic complex that formed and occupies the Chiltepe Peninsula. It is part of the Chiltepe pyroclastic shield volcano, one of three ignimbrite shields on the Nicaraguan volcanic front.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Volcán Apoyeque” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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