El Salvador · Volcanic field
Cerro Singüil
Singuil, Cerro
- Type
- Volcanic field
- Elevation
- 926m
- Last eruption
- Unknown
- Type
- Volcanic field
- Country
- El Salvador
- Region
- Middle America & Caribbean / Central America Volcanic Arc
- Elevation
- 926m
- Coordinates
- 14.054, -89.631
- Last eruption
- Unknown
- Tectonic setting
- Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
- Landform
- Cluster
- Major rock type
- Basalt / Picro-basalt
Geological summary
The most prominent feature of a volcanic field in the interior valley of El Salvador near the Guatemalan border SE of Volcán Chingo is Cerro Singüil. This scoria cone, also known as El Cerron, has a well-preserved summit crater and is part of a group of cinder cones and explosion craters mapped as Holocene in age by Weber and Wiesemann (1978). A young basaltic lava flow extends to the NNE down the valley of the Quebada La Presa, the headwaters of the Río Guajoyo. The volcanic field includes a line of three NNE-trending explosion craters N of the city of Chalchuapa, the highest of which is Cerro Tablas.
Eruption history
GlossaryDetailed timeline
No eruption records available.
Nearby volcanoes
External links
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