List of volcanoes in Costa Rica
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This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Costa Rica
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Costa Rica
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| Name | Elevation | Location | Last eruption | |
| meters | feet | Coordinates | ||
| Aguas Zarcas Group | ||||
| Arenal Arenal Volcano Arenal Volcano, in Spanish , is an active andesitic stratovolcano in north-western Costa Rica around 90 km northwest of San José, in the province of Alajuela, canton of San Carlos, and district of La Fortuna.... |
1670 | 5479 | 10.463°N 84.703°W | 2010 |
| Barva | 2906 | 9534 | 10.135°N 84.10°W | 6050 BC |
| Cerro Anunciacion | - | - | - | |
| Cerro Tilaran | 634 | 2080 | 10.451°N 84.978°W | |
| Irazú Irazú Volcano The Irazú Volcano is an active volcano in Costa Rica, situated in the Cordillera Central close to the city of Cartago.The name could come from either the combination of "ara" and "tzu" or a corruption of Iztarú, which was the name of an indigenous village on the flanks of the volcano... |
3432 | 11,260 | 9.979°N 83.852°W | 1994 |
| Laguna Poco Sol | - | - | - | |
| Miravalles Miravalles Volcano The Miravalles Volcano is an andesitic stratovolcano in Costa Rica. The caldera was formed during several major explosive eruptions that produced voluminous dacitic-rhyolitic pyroclastic flows between about 1.5 and 0.6 million years ago. The only reported historical eruptive activity was a... |
2028 | 6653 | 10.784°N 85.153°W | 1946 |
| Orosí Orosí Volcano The Orosí Volcano, in Spanish the , is an inactive volcano in Costa Rica, situated in the Cordillera de Guanacaste near the border with Nicaragua... |
1659 | 5443 | 10.980°N 85.473°W | 3500 years ago |
| Platanar | 2267 | 7438 | 10.30°N 84.366°W | Holocene |
| Poás Poás Volcano The Poás Volcano, in Spanish Volcán Poás, is an active stratovolcano in central Costa Rica. Poás has erupted 39 times since 1828.- Crater lakes :... |
2708 | 8884 | 10.20°N 84.233°W | 2008 |
| Rincón de la Vieja Rincón de la Vieja Volcano Rincón de la Vieja is an active andesitic complex volcano in north-western Costa Rica, about 25 km from Liberia, in the province of Guanacaste. Its name means "The Old Woman's Corner", a reference to a local legend about a girl whose lover was thrown into the crater by her father; she became a... |
1916 | 6286 | 10.830°N 85.324°W | 1998 |
| Tenorio Tenorio Volcano National Park Tenorio Volcano National Park is a National Park in the northern part of Costa Rica, which forms part of the Arenal Tilaran Conservation Area. The jewel of the National Park is the volcano, from which it receives its name... |
1916 | 6286 | 10.673°N 85.015°W | |
| Turrialba Turrialba Volcano Turrialba Volcano was named after the region of Costa Rica in which the volcano is situated in Turrialba County, Cartago of Costa Rica. There is no clear consensus on the origin of the name Turrialba, but historians disagree with attempts to attribute the name to the patronym Torrealba or from... |
3340 | 10,958 | 10.025°N 83.767°W | 2010 |