Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-04081
The profile of Cosigüina is not particularly impressive when viewed from its NE flank along the coast of the Gulf of Fonseca near the town of Potosí. The broad low-angle slopes of Cosigüina rise only 872 m above the coast and give little hint of the dramatic caldera that cuts the summit. Pyroclastic flows from the 1835 eruption reached the northern coast of the 20-km-wide Cosigüina Peninsula and formed new ephemeral islands in the Gulf of Fonseca.
Photo by Dick Stoiber, 1978 (Dartmouth College).
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Cosigüina