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El Tigre

Tigre, El

Stratovolcano · El Salvador · 1640m

The eroded Pleistocene El Tigre volcano is seen here from the flank of Tecapa to the NW with the town of Santiago de María near the center. Two Holocene cones are seen here, Cerro Oromontique right of Santiago de María and Cerro la Manita, the small peak on the horizon to the right.
The eroded Pleistocene El Tigre volcano is seen here from the flank of Tecapa to the NW with the town of Santiago de María near the center. Two Holocene cones are seen here, Cerro Oromontique right of Santiago de María and Cerro la Manita, the small peak on the horizon to the right. · Photo: Photo by Kristal Dorion, 1994 (U.S. Geological Survey). · Wikimedia Commons
Type
Stratovolcano
Country
El Salvador
Region
Middle America-Caribbean Volcanic Regions / 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. Its summit crater has been destroyed by erosion, and its flanks are deeply dissected. Two large NNW-trending valleys, parallel to other regional fissures, cross the volcano, which lies about 7 km SE of Tecapa volcano and a similar distance NE of Usulután volcano. Although the volcano itself is Pleistocene in age, two young cones on its flanks were mapped as Holocene by Weber and Wiesemann (1978). Cerro Oromontique and Cerro la Manita were erupted on the W and S flanks, respectively, along a NW-SE-trending fissure extending towards Tecapa.

Eruption history

Detailed timeline

No eruption records available.

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