Laguna de Apoyeque (Managua Department, Nicaragua)
Laguna de Apoyeque, Nicaragua
| Volcano: | Laguna de Apoyeque (see Laguna de Apoyeque at the Smithsonian Institution website in a new tab) |
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| Type: | Lake |
| Description: | 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. The lake at its center, Apoyeque lake, also called Laguna de Apoyaque, its shore 100 meters below the peak of the caldera, at its bottom reaches down to sea level. |
Point of contact for this site:
Nemesio M. Pérez, nperez@iter.es (Environmental Research Division, Instituto Tecnológico y de Energías Renovables )
| Measurement | date (d/m/y) | Added by | Added on |
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| Apoyeque_01012010 | 1/1/2010 | Emanuela Bagnato | Nov. 15, 2016 |
Bibliographic references for this site
Pérez, Nemesio M., Pedro A. Hernández, German Padilla, Dácil Nolasco, José Barrancos, Gladys Melían,Eleazar Padrón, Samara Dionis, David Calvo, Fátima Rodríguez, Kenji Notsu, Toshiya Mori, Minoru Kusakabe, M. Carmencita Arpa, Paolo Reniva, and Martha Ibarra, 2011,Global CO2 emission from volcanic lakes, Geology, vol.39, n.3, pp. 235-238, DOI: 10.1130/G31586.1
