Laguna de Tiscapa (Managua Department, Nicaragua)

Laguna de Tiscapa, Nicaragua

Volcano: Laguna de Tiscapa (see Laguna de Tiscapa at the Smithsonian Institution website in a new tab)
Type: Lake
Description: Tiscapa Lagoon Natural Reserve is a lagoon of volcanic origin that formed over 10,000 years ago.[1] It is located in the capital city of Managua in Nicaragua.


Point of contact for this site:
Nemesio M. Pérez, nperez@iter.es (Environmental Research Division, Instituto Tecnológico y de Energías Renovables )

Number of measurements: 1
Measurement date (d/m/y) Added by Added on
Tiscapa_010120061/1/2006 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


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