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Image GVP-04209

Concepción reaches about 1,700 m above Lake Nicaragua and is one of two volcanoes forming Ometepe Island. A small cone is visible on the lower SE flank (far right), one of the scoria cones, lava domes, and a tuff cone formed during flank eruptions. Photo by Moser (courtesy of Jaime Incer).

Concepción reaches about 1,700 m above Lake Nicaragua and is one of two volcanoes forming Ometepe Island. A small cone is visible on the lower SE flank (far right), one of the scoria cones, lava domes, and a tuff cone formed during flank eruptions.

Photo by Moser (courtesy of Jaime Incer).

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