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Cosigüina Volcano - John Seach
Nicaragua
12.98 N, 87.57 W
summit elevation 859 m
stratovolcano
The summit cone of Cosiguina volcano contains a 2.4 x 2 km wide caldera, 500 m deep with a lake. The eruption of Cosigüina in 1835 was Krakatoan with ash falling on Mexico, Costa Rica and Jamaica.
It was one of the world's great historical paroxysms and was heard in Jamaica and Colombia. The sun was blacked out for a radius of more than 150 km.
Cosigüina Volcano Eruptions
1859, 1852, 1835, 1809, 1709?, 1609?