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Encyclopedia > List of volcanoes in Costa Rica

This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Costa Rica. This article is about volcanoes in geology. ...

Name Elevation Location Last eruption
meters feet Coordinates
Argas Zarcas Group [verification needed] - - - -
Arenal 1670 5479 10.463° N 84.703° W 2006
Barva 2906 9534 10.135° N 84.10° W 6050 BC
Cerro Anunciacion [verification needed] - - - -
Cerro Tilaran [verification needed] 634 2080 10.451° N 84.978° W Holocene
Irazú 3432 11,260 9.979° N 83.852° W 1994
Laguna Poco Sol [verification needed] - - - -
Miravalles 2028 6653 10.784° N 85.153° W 1946
Orosí 1659 5443 10.980° N 85.473° W -
Platanar 2267 7438 10.30° N 84.366° W Holocene
Poás 2708 8884 10.20° N 84.233° W 1996
Rincón de la Vieja 1916 6286 10.830° N 85.324° W 1998
Tenorio 1916 6286 10.673° N 85.015° W -
Turrialba 3340 10,958 10.025° N 83.767° W 1866

This article is about longitude and latitude; see also UTM coordinate system Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (vertically) and longitude (horizontally); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which... The Arenal Volcano, in Spanish , is an active andesitic stratovolcano in north-western Costa Rica (10. ... Barva is a small city and county in Costa Rica, located 3km north of Heredia. ... The Irazú Volcano, in spanish is an active volcano in Costa Rica, situated in the Cordillera Central close to the city of Cartago. ... The Miravalles Volcano is an andesitic stratovolcano in Costa Rica. ... The Orosí Volcano, in spanish the , is an extinct volcano in Costa Rica, situated in the near the border with Nicaragua. ... The Poás Volcano is in central Costa Rica. ... The Rincón de la Vieja Volcano, in spanish , is an active andesitic stratovolcano in north-western Costa Rica, about 25 km from Liberia, in the province of Guanacaste. ... The Turrialba Volcano was named after the region of Costa Rica in which the volcano is situated. ...

References

  • Siebert, L. and T. Simkin (2002-). Volcanoes of the World: an Illustrated Catalog of Holocene Volcanoes and their Eruptions. Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program Digital Information Series, GVP-3. URL: http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/

 

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