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Steam plumes rise from the AH-16 production well at the Ahuachapán geothermal field. The Ahuachapán field, producing since 1975, is a high-temperature initially water-dominated system located on the flank of Laguna Verde volcano about 2 km NW of the summit. Photo by Pat Dobson, 1999 (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory).

Steam plumes rise from the AH-16 production well at the Ahuachapán geothermal field. The Ahuachapán field, producing since 1975, is a high-temperature initially water-dominated system located on the flank of Laguna Verde volcano about 2 km NW of the summit.

Photo by Pat Dobson, 1999 (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory).

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