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Cerro Singüil

Singuil, Cerro

Volcanic field · El Salvador · 926m

Cerro Singüil is a large scoria cone with a summit crater that lies at the eastern end of a large volcanic field in the interior valley of El Salvador near the Guatemalan border, SE of Volcán Chingo. Cerro Singüil is seen here from the SE along the Pan-American Highway, around the eastern flank of the cone.
Cerro Singüil is a large scoria cone with a summit crater that lies at the eastern end of a large volcanic field in the interior valley of El Salvador near the Guatemalan border, SE of Volcán Chingo. Cerro Singüil is seen here from the SE along the Pan-American Highway, around the eastern flank of the cone. · Photo: Photo by Giuseppina Kysar, 1999 (Smithsonian Institution). · Wikimedia Commons
Type
Volcanic field
Country
El Salvador
Region
Middle America-Caribbean Volcanic Regions / 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

Detailed timeline

No eruption records available.

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