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A satellite image of the volcano. The Santa Ana Volcano or Ilamatepec (Spanish: volcán de Santa Ana) is a large stratovolcano located in the Santa Ana department of El Salvador. At 2,381 metres (7,812 ft) above sea level, it is the highest volcano in the country. It is located immediately west of Coatepeque Caldera.
Izalco is an active stratovolcano [2] on the side of the Santa Ana Volcano, which is located in western El Salvador. It is situated on the southern flank of the Santa Ana volcano. Izalco erupted almost continuously from 1770 (when it formed) to 1958 [3] earning it the nickname of "Lighthouse of the Pacific", and experienced a flank eruption in ...
Santa Ana volcano (background, far right) with Izalco to the far left, Cerro Verde center and San Marcelino vents in the foreground. Parque Nacional Los Volcanes, also known as Cerro Verde National Park, is a large national park in El Salvador. The park includes three volcanoes: Cerro Verde, Izalco, and Santa Ana. [1]
The Apaneca Range, which is located in the southern part of town and home to the Santa Ana volcano (which is the highest volcano in the country), the Izalco volcano (which the youngest volcano in the country having originated in 1770), and the Cerro Verde, located in the Natural Park of Cerro Verde (which was re-opened after a closure in 2001 ...
Santa Ana winds and, their Bay Area cousin, the Diablo winds occur when air from a region of high pressure over the dry Great Basin region of the U.S. flows westward toward lower pressure located ...
The blaze, dubbed the Auto Fire, was first reported in the Santa Clara River bottom around 6:50 p.m. local time as Santa Ana winds whipped through the region. As of early Tuesday, the blaze burned ...
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates; Apaneca Range: 2036: 6680: Holocene Apastepeque Volcanic Field: 700: 2297: Holocene Chingo [1]: 1775: 5823
Thousands of firefighters working to contain and extinguish a series of devastating and deadly wildfires in the Los Angeles area took advantage of a welcome break from the dangerous Santa Ana ...