Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-07977

The flat-topped Cerro El Faro cone (upper right) lies across a low isthmus at the southernmost tip of Isla Isabel. It is seen here across the Acantilado Mayor Bay from Cerro del Mirador, the high point of the small 1.5-km-long island. Wave erosion has eroded the flank of Monte Transverso to the left. The two cones are connected by a lava flow. Photo by Jim Luhr, 1999 (Smithsonian Institution).

The flat-topped Cerro El Faro cone (upper right) lies across a low isthmus at the southernmost tip of Isla Isabel. It is seen here across the Acantilado Mayor Bay from Cerro del Mirador, the high point of the small 1.5-km-long island. Wave erosion has eroded the flank of Monte Transverso to the left. The two cones are connected by a lava flow.

Photo by Jim Luhr, 1999 (Smithsonian Institution).

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Isla Isabel

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Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-07977