Cerro Juana Pancha, seen from the south near the Pan-American highway on the way to La Unión, is part of the Pleistocene Cerro Yayantique volcanic field. Cerro Yayantique is the most prominent and least-eroded feature in a broad area of Pleistocene volcanic rocks in the SE corner of El Salvador west of the NW arm of the Gulf of Fonseca. An E-W-trending area of smaller Pleistocene volcanic cones to the NE straddles both sides of the Río Amatillo Sirama.

Photo by Giuseppina Kysar, 1999 (Smithsonian Institution).

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Cerro Yayantique