GVP volcano 341091 · no holder yet
La Malinche
La Malinche is a 4,461 m stratovolcano in Mexico, last erupted around 1170 BCE.
- Type
- Stratovolcano (composite landform)
- Summit
- 4,461 m above sea level
- Rock
- Andesite / Basaltic Andesite
- Setting
- Subduction zone, continental, over 25 km
- Last eruption
- 1170 BCE
- Largest known
- no eruption with a measured size
- Eruptions
- 7 confirmed in the record
- Where
- 19.23°N 98.03°W · Mexico
- Region
- Trans-Mexican Volcanic Arc, Middle America-Caribbean Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 341091
Not a hazard warning. For safety information follow the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (its directory lists the observatory for each country).