Chingo Volcanic Field, Guatemala

El Chingo volcano.  Image © Leo Muyshondt, Dec 2004

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Apaneca Range, El Salvador

Apaneca Range from the S. Cerro de Apeneca on the left, Las Ninfas – Laguna Verde complex in the center. Cuyanausul, Cerro de la Rana, Cerro Aguila, Cerro los Naranjos to the right. The Concepcion de Ataco Caldera is on the other side of the range, obscured by the line of volcanic cones. Image courtesy Lee Siebert, 1999 via Smithsonian GVP

VOLCÁN de SANTA ANA – 🇸🇻 – or LAMATEPEC (not: Ilamatepec)

From front: Santa Ana volcano, Cerro Verde, Izalco in the Santa Ana volcanic complex. (© salvadoreantours.com)

Looking for the right volcano name to use in my post I found only great confusion, even in official sources. Volcán de Santa Ana is the official name given in Spanish, there’s no doubt. However, in articles across the web you can also find it variously called Ilamatepec, Llamatepec or Lamatepec. Faggioli (2013) notes that all those have no base in the native Náhuat language. The initial “I” in Ilametepec is someone’s invention and plain wrong. It has been called Lamatepec in the work of a 19th century researcher, and this name has since become habitually in use locally.

Chaparrastique / El Salvador