Atitlan (Sololá Department, Guatemala)
Atitlán lake, Guatemala
| Volcano: | Atitlán (see Atitlán at the Smithsonian Institution website in a new tab) |
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| Type: | Lake |
| Description: | Lake Atitlán is a lake in the Guatemalan Highlands of the Sierra Madre mountain range. Lake Atitlán is the deepest lake in Central America with a maximum depth of about 340 metres (1,120 ft)[1] with an average depth of 220 metres. |
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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| Atitlan_01012008 | 1/1/2008 | 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
