Coffee beans dry in the sun at a finca near the town of San José la Majada in the SE part of the Apaneca range. Coffee is the primary crop in this portion of El Salvador; fertile volcanic soil and abundant rainfall provide excellent habitat for coffee trees across the flanks of the volcanoes of the Apaneca range and Santa Ana massif. The Cerro las Ninfas-Laguna Verde complex forms the ridge on the horizon.

Photo by Lee Siebert, 2002 (Smithsonian Institution).

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Keywords: stratovolcano

Apaneca Range