Volcán San Pedro (or ''Las Yeguas'') is a
stratovolcano
A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a typically conical volcano built up by many alternating layers (strata) of hardened lava and tephra. Unlike shield volcanoes, stratovolcanoes are characterized by a steep profile with ...
on the shores of
Lago de Atitlán __NOTOC__
Lago, which means "lake
A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie comple ...
, in the
Sololá Department __NOTOC__
Sololá is a city in Guatemala. It is the capital of the department of Sololá and the administrative seat of Sololá municipality. It is located close to Lake Atitlan.
The name is a Hispanicized form of its pre-Columbian name, one sp ...
of southern
Guatemala
Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically b ...
. It is part of the mountain range of the
Sierra Madre.
At the base of the volcano is the village of
San Pedro La Laguna.
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Notes
References
External links
San Pedro, Lake Atitlan videoshowing the view from the top.
Sololá Department
Sierra Madre de Chiapas
Stratovolcanoes of Guatemala
Subduction volcanoes
Volcano
A volcano is commonly defined as a vent or fissure in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
On Earth, volcanoes are most oft ...
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