Porvenir Volcano is an inactive volcano, of stratovolcano type, in Costa Rica. Located in San Carlos canton of

Alajuela Alajuela () is a district in the Alajuela canton of the Alajuela Province of Costa Rica. As the seat of the Municipality of Alajuela canton, it is awarded the status of city. By virtue of being the city of the first canton of the province, it i ...

, 3km from the related

Platanar Volcano Platanar Volcano is located in the Cordillera Central (Costa Rica), Cordillera Central mountain range. Part of a complex that covers and is dominated by Porvenir Volcano at . It is located within the Juan Castro Blanco National Park. Physical as ...

and part of the Cordillera Central mountain range. It is within the Juan Castro Blanco National Park.

Physical aspects

Towering 430m over an area of 15 km2, with an eroded crater of around 160 m diameter, it is located in the same line as

Poás Volcano The Poás Volcano, ( es, Volcán Poás), is an active stratovolcano in central Costa Rica and is located within Poas Volcano National Park. It has erupted 40 times since 1828, including April 2017 when visitors and residents were evacuated. T ...

Barva Volcano Barva Volcano is an andesitic stratovolcano complex in central Costa Rica, 22 km north of San José, in Heredia Province. On the eastern side of the mountain it has a lake in what was the volcanic crater, called "Laguna de Barva", and in th ...

and

Irazú Volcano The Irazú Volcano ( es, Volcán Irazú) is an active volcano in Costa Rica, situated in the Cordillera Central close to the city of Cartago. The name could come from either the combination of "ara" (point) and "tzu" (thunder) or a corruptio ...

. The crater border is truncated in the east side by a fault, inside of which there is a small cone of around 20 to 40 meters high, to the south there is another possible cone. Lake Congo is located on its slopes to the west as well as Lake Pozo Verde.

Activity

There are no reports of primary or secondary activity.

References

{{Central American volcanoes Stratovolcanoes of Costa Rica Mountains of Costa Rica