Laguna de Apoyo (Masaya Department, Nicaragua)
Laguna de Apoyo, Nicaragua
| Volcano: | Laguna de Apoyo (see Laguna de Apoyo at the Smithsonian Institution website in a new tab) |
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| Type: | Lake |
| Description: | Laguna de Apoyo is an endorheic lake occupying the caldera of an extinct volcano. The lake is approximately round, with the diameter of 6.6 km. It is 175 m deep, and occupied 21 square km. |
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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| Apoyo_01012006 | 1/1/2006 | 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
