Volcán Apoyeque
Sign in to saveApoyeque is a pyroclastic shield, located in the Chiltepe Peninsula Natural Reserve in Nicaragua. It has a 2.8-km wide, 400-m-deep, lake-filled caldera.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Apoyeque
- Mountain.photo
- Apoyeque nicaragua location map.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Map of Nicaragua, showing location of Chiltepe peninsula and Nicaragua volcanic front.
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 518
- Mountain.location
- Nicaragua
- Mountain.type
- Pyroclastic shield
- Mountain.volcanic_arc
- Central America Volcanic Arc
- Mountain.last_eruption
- 50 BC ± 100 years
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Apoyeque is a pyroclastic shield, located in the Chiltepe Peninsula Natural Reserve in Nicaragua. It has a 2.8-km wide, 400-m-deep, lake-filled caldera.
==Geography== thumb|right|The Chiltepe Peninsula and the Apoyeque caldera, view from the International Space Station|ISS. Apoyeque is a volcanic complex that formed and occupies the Chiltepe Peninsula. It is part of the Chiltepe pyroclastic shield volcano, one of three ignimbrite shields on the Nicaraguan volcanic front.