Isla Zacatillo lies in the Gulf of Fonseca only 2 km from Punta el Chiquirín, the eastern tip of El Salvador. The low, roughly 3-km-wide island is crudely rectangular in shape, but has a peninsula extending to the NE. A steep escarpment truncates the western side of the island, seen here. NNW-SSE-trending faults cut lava flows on the island. The conical peak in the distance is Isla el Tigre in Honduras.

Photo by Rick Wunderman, 1999 (Smithsonian Institution).

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Isla Zacatillo