Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-07349

San Salvador volcano rises above the capital city of El Salvador. The broader peak to the left is the Boquerón edifice, which has grown within the 6-km-wide crater of the older El Picacho edifice (the peak to the right). Most of the four pre-1917 eruptions recorded at San Salvador since the 16th century have occurred at flank vents. Photo by Rick Wunderman, 1999 (Smithsonian Institution).

San Salvador volcano rises above the capital city of El Salvador. The broader peak to the left is the Boquerón edifice, which has grown within the 6-km-wide crater of the older El Picacho edifice (the peak to the right). Most of the four pre-1917 eruptions recorded at San Salvador since the 16th century have occurred at flank vents.

Photo by Rick Wunderman, 1999 (Smithsonian Institution).

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