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Las Pilas Volcano, Nicaragua
Las Pilas stratovolcano, seen here from the south, is the most prominent feature of Nicaragua's Las Pilas volcanic complex.
Las Pilas barely exceeds 1000 m in elevation, but it towers 900 m above its base in the Nicaraguan depression only a few hundred m above sea level.
Its broad 1088-m-high summit is cut by a 700-m-wide crater and by a N-S fissure formed during an eruption in 1952.
There were no previously documented eruptions of this volcano since the arrival of Spanish explorers in the 1520s.
PHOTO SOURCE: Bill Rose 1967, Michigan Technological University, courtesy of the Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, used with permission.
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