El Boqueron National Park Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
About El Boqueron National Park
The San Salvador Volcano is an active stratovolcano. It is known locally by several names includingQuezaltepequeandEl Boqueron(Big Mouth, referring specifically to the enormous crater, which was formed by an eruption about 800 years ago. The volcano has a number of fissures that have occasionally been the source of eruptions and lava flows, one in the 17th century buried the nearby town of Nexapa. The most recent eruption, in 1917, occurred on a flank fissure, it evaporated the crater lake and formed a cinder cone calledBoqueroncitoinside the main caldera. Because of its proximity to El Salvador's largest population centers, the volcano is regarded as adecade volcanothat could have catastrophic consequences in future eruptions. The volcano is part of a larger mountain calledEl Picacho. The
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