Key facts
- Elevation
- 4,060 m (13,320 ft)
- Prominence
- 1,030 m (3,380 ft)
- Listing
- North America highest peaks 102nd
- Parent range
- Sierra Madre de Chiapas
- Mountain type
- Stratovolcano
- Volcanic arc
- Central America Volcanic Arc
- Last eruption
- May 1986
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- volcano
- Country
- Guatemala
- Located in
- San Marcos Department
- Continent
- Americas
- Elevation
- 4064
- Image
- Volcal-tucan.jpg
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- Commons category
- Volcán Tacaná
- topographic prominence
- 1030
- mountain range
- Sierra Madre de Chiapas
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Encyclopedic overview
The volcano Tacaná is the second highest peak in Central America at 4,060 metres (13,320 ft), located in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas of western Guatemala and southern Mexico. It is also known in Mexico as Volcán Tacina.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Volcán Tacaná” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.