Ilopango Volcano, El Salvador
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Ilopango Volcano, El Salvador
One of the most impressive features of El Salvador is the scenic 8 x 11 km Ilopango caldera, filled by one of El Salvador's largest lakes.
The caldera, which has a scalloped 150-500 m high rim, lies immediately east of the capital city of San Salvador, seen at the upper left.
The latest collapse of Ilopango caldera resulted from the massive 5th-century AD eruption, which produced widespread pyroclastic flows and devastated early Mayan cities.
Post-caldera eruptions formed a series of glassy dacitic lava domes within the lake and near its shore.
PHOTO SOURCE: Carlos Pullinger, 1996 (Servicio Nacional de Estudios Territoriales, El Salvador), courtesy of the Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, used with permission.
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