Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-04153

Las Pilas stratovolcano, seen here from the S, is the most prominent feature of Nicaragua's Las Pilas volcanic complex. Las Pilas rises to 900 m above its base in the Nicaraguan depression. Its broad summit contains a 700-m-wide crater and a N-S fissure that formed during an eruption in 1952. Photo by Bill Rose, 1967 (Michigan Technological University).

Las Pilas stratovolcano, seen here from the S, is the most prominent feature of Nicaragua's Las Pilas volcanic complex. Las Pilas rises to 900 m above its base in the Nicaraguan depression. Its broad summit contains a 700-m-wide crater and a N-S fissure that formed during an eruption in 1952.

Photo by Bill Rose, 1967 (Michigan Technological University).

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