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Santa Ana Volcano, the Glossary

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The Santa Ana Volcano or Ilamatepec (volcán de Santa Ana) is a large stratovolcano located in the Santa Ana department of El Salvador.[1]

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  1. 19 relations: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Caldera, Cinder cone, Coatepeque Caldera, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, Cordillera de Apaneca, Debris flow, El Salvador, Hurricane Stan, Köppen climate classification, List of stratovolcanoes, List of volcanoes in El Salvador, Oceanic climate, Pleistocene, Santa Ana Department, Stratovolcano, The Little Prince, Volcanic crater, Volcanic crater lake.

  2. Calderas of Central America
  3. Mountains of El Salvador
  4. Stratovolcanoes of El Salvador

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, Vicomte de Saint-Exupéry, known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ((29 June 1900;– 31 July 1944), was a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator. He received several prestigious literary awards for his novella The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) and for his lyrical aviation writings, including Wind, Sand and Stars and Night Flight (Vol de nuit).

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Caldera

A caldera is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcanic eruption.

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Cinder cone

A cinder cone (or scoria cone) is a steep conical hill of loose pyroclastic fragments, such as volcanic clinkers, volcanic ash, or scoria that has been built around a volcanic vent.

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Coatepeque Caldera

Coatepeque Caldera (Nawat: cōātepēc, "at the snake hill") is a volcanic caldera in El Salvador in Central America. Santa Ana Volcano and Coatepeque Caldera are calderas of Central America and volcanic crater lakes.

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Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

Consuelo, comtesse de Saint-Exupéry (née Suncín de Sandoval; 10 April 1901 – 28 May 1979), was a Salvadoran-French writer and artist, and was married to the French aristocrat, writer and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

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Cordillera de Apaneca

Cordillera de Apaneca is a volcanic mountain range in western El Salvador. Santa Ana Volcano and Cordillera de Apaneca are mountains of El Salvador.

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Debris flow

Debris flows are geological phenomena in which water-laden masses of soil and fragmented rock flow down mountainsides, funnel into stream channels, entrain objects in their paths, and form thick, muddy deposits on valley floors.

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El Salvador

El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America.

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Hurricane Stan

Hurricane Stan was the deadliest tropical cyclone of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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List of stratovolcanoes

A list of stratovolcanoes follows below.

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List of volcanoes in El Salvador

This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in El Salvador.

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Oceanic climate

An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate or maritime climate, is the temperate climate sub-type in Köppen classification represented as Cfb, typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, generally featuring cool to warm summers and cool to mild winters (for their latitude), with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Santa Ana Department

Santa Ana is a department of El Salvador in the northwest of the country.

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Stratovolcano

A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava and tephra.

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The Little Prince

The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) is a novella written and illustrated by French writer and military pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

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Volcanic crater

A volcanic crater is an approximately circular depression in the ground caused by volcanic activity.

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Volcanic crater lake

A volcanic crater lake is a lake in a crater that was formed by explosive activity or a collapse during a volcanic eruption. Santa Ana Volcano and volcanic crater lake are volcanic crater lakes.

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See also

Calderas of Central America

Mountains of El Salvador

Stratovolcanoes of El Salvador

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Ana_Volcano

Also known as Ilamatepec, Santa Ana (volcano), Volcán de Santa Ana.