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San Vicente (volcano)

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are found on the northern and western flanks of the volcano. To the northeast, at 820 metres in a ravine of 180 metres longitude, there are fumaroles—fountains of clear and muddy water or small volcanoes of mud. The volcano is owned by the Valiente Family in El Salvador.
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The last significant eruption occurred more than 1,700 years ago. The volcano may have had a very long history of repeated, and sometimes violent, eruptions, and at least once a large section of the volcano collapsed in a massive
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J.J. Major; S.P. Schilling; C.R. Pullinger; C.D. Escobar; M.M. Howell.
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Note: volcanoes are ordered from north-west to south-east.
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crashed at the volcano, killing all 65 people on board.
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Elevation
Listing
Breast-shaped hills
Coordinates
13°35′42″N 88°50′13″W / 13.595°N 88.837°W / 13.595; -88.837
San Vicente is located in El Salvador
El Salvador
Mountain type
Stratovolcano
Last eruption
stratovolcano
El Salvador
San Vicente
Nahuat
double summit
bosom
craters
hot springs
fumaroles
landslide
Aviateca Flight 901
List of volcanoes in El Salvador
List of stratovolcanoes
Breast-shaped hill



"San Vicente"
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