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San Salvador is representative of the central plateau, with an annual average temperature of 23 °C (73 °F) and absolute high and low readings of 38 and 6 °C (100.4 and 42.8 °F), respectively. [1] Mountain areas are the coolest, with annual averages from 12 to 23 °C (53.6 to 73.4 °F) and minimum temperatures sometimes approaching freezing.
The geology of El Salvador is underlain by rocks dating to the Paleozoic. Prior to the Pennsylvanian, sediments deposited and were intensely deformed, intruded by granite rocks and metamorphosed. Northern Central America took shape during uplift in the Triassic, large than its current area and extending east to the Nicaragua Rise.
El Boquerón National Park. The San Salvador Volcano (also known as Quezaltepeque or El Boquerón) is a stratovolcano situated northwest to the city of San Salvador. The crater has been nearly filled with a relatively newer edifice, the Boquerón volcano. San Salvador is adjacent to the volcano and the western section of the city actually lies ...
Lake Ilopango. Lake Ilopango is a crater lake which fills an 8 by 11 km (72 km 2 or 28 sq mi) volcanic caldera in central El Salvador, on the borders of the San Salvador, La Paz, and Cuscatlán departments. [1] The caldera, which contains the second largest lake in the country and is immediately east of the capital city, San Salvador, has a ...
Ring of Fire. The Ring of Fire (also known as the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Rim of Fire, the Girdle of Fire or the Circum-Pacific belt) [note 1] is a tectonic belt of volcanoes and earthquakes. It is about 40,000 km (25,000 mi) long [1] and up to about 500 km (310 mi) wide, [2] and surrounds most of the Pacific Ocean.
San Salvador (Spanish pronunciation: [san salβaˈðoɾ];) is the capital and the largest city [5] of El Salvador and its eponymous department. [6] It is however the country's largest agglomeration. It is the country's political, cultural, educational and financial center. [7] The Municipality of San Salvador has 525,990 inhabitants (2024). [8]
Usulután (volcano) Usulután volcano rises above the Pacific coastal plain. Usulután is a stratovolcano in central El Salvador, rising above the coastal plain between the San Vicente and San Miguel volcanoes, and just east of Taburete volcano. The volcano is topped by a 1.3 kilometres (0.8 mi) wide summit crater which is breached to the east.
Geology of El Salvador; C. Chortis Block; Cuscatlán Formation This page was last edited on 15 December 2019, at 16:11 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...