Taburete

Taburete volcano rises above the Pacific coastal plain E of the Río Lempa at the SW end of a cluster of volcanoes between San Vincente and San Miguel volcanoes. Basaltic to basaltic andesite, it is elongated in a NW-SE direction and overlaps with Tecapa volcano to the NE. Its summit forms a prominent peak that rises above the southern crater rim. A well-preserved, 150-300 m deep summit crater has a low point on its eastern rim. A fairly recent lava flow descends the S flank (Williams and McBirney, 1955). Loma Pacha cone on the lower SE flank fed a thick lava flow that traveled 1 km SE. The age of the most recent eruption is not precisely known, and Weber and Wiesemann (1978) did not map its Holocene deposits.