San Salvador (Volcán de San Salvador)
The fifth one in Top 10 Highest Mountains in El Salvador that Toplist would like to introduce to you is San Salvador. The San Salvador Volcano (also known as Quezaltepeque or El Boquerón) is a stratovolcano located northwest of San Salvador's city limits. The Boquerón volcano, a comparatively recent construction, has nearly filled the crater. San Salvador is located next to the volcano, and the city's western half is built on its slopes. Because of the city's proximity to the volcano, any geological activity, whether eruptive or not, has the potential to cause catastrophic destruction and death. Despite this, the volcano is a symbol of the city, with multiple television and radio towers atop the El Picacho peaks and the Boqueron crater. The towering mountain, El Picacho, is the highest point in the area (1,960 meters altitude).
The main edifice, known as the Boquerón edifice, was built to fill a former caldera between 700 and 1,000 years ago. The caldera rim is visible on the northeast side of the volcano as a crescent-shaped ridge. The Boquerón edifice's lavas contain more alkali elements and iron oxide than the earlier edifice's lavas. The present-day crater was created by a massive explosion around 800 years ago. The crater, which is 1.5 km in diameter and 500 meters deep, lends it its current name (Boquerón means "large mouth" in Spanish). Crops are grown by the residents who live on the volcano within the crater's higher walls.
The magma chamber on which the volcano sits has a number of fissures that protrude along the volcano's flanks and sides. The northwest (N40W) fissure has recently been the most active, with major eruptions such as the Loma Caldera eruption, which destroyed the ancient community of Ceren, and the El Playon eruption (1658–71), which buried the town of Nexapa. The residents moved to Nejapa, and the eruption is now commemorated every year.
The volcano's most recent eruption, in 1917, resulted in a flank eruption along the N40W fissure. During this eruption, the crater lake inside the Boquerón vanished, leaving only a cinder cone known as 'Boqueróncito.'
Location: northwest to the city of San Salvador, El Salvador
Elevation: 1,893 m (6,211 ft)
