San Vicente (Volcán de San Vicente)
The second one in Top 10 Highest Mountains in El Salvador that Toplist would like to introduce to you is San Vicente. San Vicente is a stratovolcano in central El Salvador that is also known as Chichontepec or Las Chiches. It is the second highest volcano in El Salvador and is located near the town of San Vicente (thus the name). Chichontepec means "mountain of the two breasts'' in the Nahuat language, because its twin top resembles a woman's bosom. There are two craters on the volcano, one on each summit, though not exactly at the top. Both summits are covered in dense forest. On the volcano's northern and western flanks, there are several hot springs and fumaroles. Fumaroles—fountains of clear and murky water or miniature mud volcanoes—can be found to the northeast at 820 meters in a ravine of 180 meters longitude.
More than 1,700 years have passed since the last major eruption. The volcano may have a lengthy history of eruptions, some of which were destructive, and at least once a substantial chunk of the volcano collapsed in a catastrophic landslide.
Aviateca Flight 901 crashed into the volcano on August 9, 1995, killing all 65 people on board.
Location: in central El Salvador
Elevation: 2,182 m (7,159 ft)
