List of volcanoes in Guatemala
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This is a list of active, dormant, and extinct volcanoes in Guatemala
Guatemala
Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...

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Name Elevation
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Acatenango
Acatenango
Acatenango is a stratovolcano in Guatemala, close to the city of Antigua. The volcano has two peaks, Pico Mayor and Yepocapa which is also known as Tres Hermanas...

 
3976 13,044 14°30′02"N 90°52′33"W 1972
Agua
Volcán de Agua
Volcán de Agua is a stratovolcano located in the department of Sacatepéquez in Guatemala. It has been inactive since the mid 16th century. At 3,760 metres, Agua Volcano towers more than 3,500 metres above the Pacific coastal plain to the south and 2,000 metres above the Guatemalan...

 
3760 12,336 14°27′53"N 90°44′35"W Holocene
Almolonga
Almolonga
The Almolonga volcano, sometimes also called "Cerro Quemado" , is an andesitic stratovolcano in the south-western department of Quetzaltenango in Guatemala...

 
3197 10,489 14°49′00"N 91°29′00"W 1818
Atitlán
Volcán Atitlán
Volcán Atitlán is a large, conical, active stratovolcano adjacent to the caldera of Lake Atitlán in the Highlands of Guatemala. The volcano has been quite active historically, with more than a dozen eruptions recorded between 1469 and 1853, the date of its most recent eruption. Atitlán is part of...

 
3535 11,598 14°34′58"N 91°11′11"W 1853
Chingo
Chingo
Volcán Chingo is a stratovolcano in southeastern Guatemala, on the border with El Salvador....

 
1775 5823 14°07′00"N 89°44′00"W Holocene
Cerro Santiago
Cerro Santiago
Cerro Santiago is one of the most prominent cinder cones of a volcanic field surrounding the city of Jutiapa in southern Guatemala....

 
1192 3911 14°20′00"N 89°52′00"W Holocene
Cerro de Oro  1892 6207 14°39′50"N 91°10′41"W
Chicabal  2900 9514 14°47′00"N 91°40′00"W -
Chiquimula Volcanic Field
Chiquimula Volcanic Field
The Chiquimula Volcanic Field is a located in the Chiquimula valley in southern Guatemala....

 
1192 3911 14°50′00"N 89°33′00"W Holocene
Coxóm
Cerro de Coxóm
Cerro de Coxóm is a stratovolcano in Totonicapán in western Guatemala. The high volcano is located at the eastern edge of the valley of Quetzaltenango....

 
3045 10007 14°53′15"N 91°23′52"W
Cuilapa-Barbarena  1454 4770 14°20′00"N 90°24′00"W Holocene
Flores
Volcán de Flores
Volcán de Flores is the most prominent stratovolcano in a volcanic field composed of several small volcanoes in southern Guatemala. It is located approximately 10 km west of the city of Jutiapa.- References :*...

 
1600 5249 14°18′28"N 89°59′32"W Holocene
Fuego
Volcán de Fuego
Volcán de Fuego is an active stratovolcano in Guatemala. It is close to the city of Antigua Guatemala. It has erupted frequently since the Spanish conquest. "Fuego" is famous for being almost constantly active at a low level. Smoke issues from its top daily, but larger eruptions are rare. On...

 
3763 12,346 14°28′22"N 90°52′49"W 2011
Ipala
Ipala (volcano)
Volcán Ipala is a stratovolcano in south-eastern Guatemala. It has a wide summit crater which contains a crater lake , whose surface lies about below the crater rim. Volcán Ipala is part of a cluster of small stratovolcanoes and cinder cone fields in south-eastern Guatemala....

 
1650 5413 14°33′00"N 89°38′00"W Holocene
Ixtepeque
Ixtepeque
Volcán Ixtepeque is a stratovolcano in southern Guatemala. It consists of several rhyolitic lava domes and basaltic cinder cones.Its name is derived from the nahuatl word for obsidian. Ixtepeque was one of the most important obsidian sources in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica....

 
1292 4239 14°25′00"N 89°41′00"W Holocene
Jumaytepeque
Volcán Jumaytepeque
Volcán Jumaytepeque is a stratovolcano in south-eastern Guatemala. The high volcano is located about 7 km north-north-east of the city of Cuilapa, near the south-eastern rim of the large Miocene Santa Rosa de Lima caldera....

 
1815 5955 14°20′08"N 90°16′10"W Holocene
Moyuta
Moyuta (volcano)
Moyuta is a stratovolcano in southern Guatemala. It is located near the town of Moyuta in Jutiapa Department, and is situated at the southern edge of the Jaltapagua fault. The volcano has an elevation of 1662 m and its summit is formed by three andesitic lava domes. The slopes of the volcano...

 
1662 5453 14°02′00"N 90°06′00"W
Pacaya
Pacaya
Pacaya is an active complex volcano in Guatemala, which first erupted approximately 23,000 years ago and has erupted at least 23 times since the Spanish conquest of Guatemala. Pacaya rises to an elevation of . After being dormant for a century, it erupted violently in 1965 and has been...

 
2552 8373 14°22′51"N 90°36′04"W 2011
Quezaltepeque
Quezaltepeque (volcano)
Quezaltepeque is a volcanic field in Chiquimula, Guatemala at . It has erupted in the Holocene. It is an area of basaltic lava flows was erupted from vents along a north-south trending fault without explosions, cutting through Tertiary pyroclastic rocks WNW of Ipala volcano about 5 km south of...

 
1200 3937 14°34′00"N 89°27′00"W Holocene
San Pedro  3020 9908 14°39′21"N 91°15′57"W
Santa María  3772 12,375 14°45′21"N 91°33′06"W 2011
Santo Tomas  3542 11,621 14°42′37"N 91°28′43"W 84,000 years ago
Siete Orejas
Volcán Siete Orejas
Volcán Siete Orejas is a stratovolcano in Guatemala located in the department of Quetzaltenango The volcano has 7 peaks, set around a large crater of which the southern side appears to have collapsed...

 
3370 11060 14°48′53"N 91°37′04"W -
Suchitán  2042 6699 14°24′00"N 89°47′00"W 1469
Tacaná
Volcán Tacaná
The Tacaná Volcano is the second highest peak in Central America at . It is located in the Tacaná municipality of the Guatemalan department of San Marcos, and in Cacahoatán Municipality and Unión Juárez Municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas....

 
4060 13,320 15°07′48"N 92°06′45"W 1986
Tahual  1716 5630 14°26′00"N 89°54′00"W Holocene
Tajumulco
Volcán Tajumulco
Volcán Tajumulco is a large stratovolcano in the department of San Marcos in western Guatemala. It is the highest mountain in Guatemala and Central America at...

 
4220 13,845 15°02′04"N 91°54′12"W 1863
Tecuamburro
Tecuamburro
Tecuamburro is a stratovolcano in southern Guatemala, roughly 50 kilometres south east of Guatemala City. The Tecuamburro is an andesitic stratovolcano which formed approximately 38,000 years ago inside a horseshoe-shaped caldera formed by a structural failure in a second,...

 
1845 6053 14°09′22"N 90°24′25"W 960 BC ± 75 years
Tolimán
Volcán Tolimán
Tolimán is a stratovolcano in Guatemala, on the southern shores of Lago de Atitlán. The volcano has an elevation of 3,158 m and was formed near the southern margin of the Pleistocene Atitlán III caldera. The top of the volcano has a shallow crater and its flanks are covered with the thick remains...

 
3158 10,361 14°36′45"N 91°11′21"W Holocene

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