El Salvador · Stratovolcano

El Tigre

Name: El Tigre
Address: Middle America-Caribbean Volcanic Regions, El Salvador

Tigre, El

Type: Stratovolcano
Elevation: 1640m
Last eruption: Unknown

El Tigre — Photo: Kristal Dorion, U.S. Geological Survey · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Type: Stratovolcano
Country: El Salvador
Region: Middle America & Caribbean / Central America Volcanic Arc
Elevation: 1640m
Coordinates: 13.470, -88.430
Last eruption: Unknown
Tectonic setting: Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
Landform: Composite
Major rock type: Basalt / Picro-basalt

Geological summary

Cerro el Tigre is the highest, NE-most, and oldest of the cluster of coalescing basaltic to basaltic andesite Quaternary volcanoes between the Río Lempa and San Miguel volcano.

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Eruption history

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