El Chichón
El Chichón, also known as Chichonal, is an active volcano in Francisco León, north-western Chiapas, Mexico. El Chichón is part of a geologic zone known as the Chiapanecan Volcanic Arc.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 1,025 metres
- Description: Mexican volcano
- Also known as: “Chichonal”, “El Chichon”, “El Chichón Volcano”, and “Volcán Chichonal”
El Chichón
- Category: landform
- Location: Chiapas, Yucatán and the South, Mexico, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
17.36067° or 17° 21′ 38″ northLongitude
-93.22964° or 93° 13′ 47″ westElevation
1,025 metres (3,363 feet)Open location code
76989Q6C+74OpenStreetMap ID
node 886325345OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
Discover El Chichón from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Ukrainian—“El Chichón” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Ел Чичон”
- Cebuano: “Volcan El Chichonal”
- Chinese: “埃尔奇琼火山”
- Chinese: “埃爾奇瓊火山”
- Czech: “El Chichón”
- Dutch: “El Chichon”
- Dutch: “El Chichón”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ال كيتشون”
- Finnish: “Chicon”
- Finnish: “El Chichon”
- Finnish: “El Chichón”
- Finnish: “El Chicon”
- Finnish: “El Chicón”
- French: “El Chichon”
- French: “El Chichón”
- Galician: “El Chichón”
- German: “El Chichon”
- German: “El Chichón”
- German: “El Chichonal”
- Greek: “Ελ Τσιτσόν”
- Greek: “Ελ Χιχόν”
- Hebrew: “אל צ’יצ’ון”
- Hungarian: “Chichón”
- Hungarian: “Chichonal”
- Hungarian: “El Chichón”
- Indonesian: “El Chichón”
- Italian: “El Chichón”
- Japanese: “エル・チチョン”
- Japanese: “エルチチョン”
- Japanese: “エルチチョン山”
- Javanese: “El Chichón”
- Kazakh: “Эль-Чичон”
- Korean: “엘치촌산”
- Lithuanian: “El Čičonalis”
- Lithuanian: “El Čičonas”
- Macedonian: “Ел Чичон”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “El Chichón”
- Norwegian: “El Chichón”
- Occitan (post 1500): “El Chichón”
- Persian: “ال چیچون”
- Polish: “El Chichón”
- Portuguese: “El Chichon”
- Portuguese: “El Chichón”
- Romanian: “El Chichon”
- Romanian: “El Chichón”
- Russian: “Эль-Чичон”
- Serbian: “Čičon”
- Serbian: “Ел Чичон”
- Serbian: “Чичон”
- Slovak: “El Chichón”
- Spanish: “Chichon”
- Spanish: “Chichón”
- Spanish: “Chichonal”
- Spanish: “El Chichón”
- Spanish: “Volcan El Chichonal”
- Swedish: “El Chichón”
- Swedish: “Volcan El Chichonal”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Чичон”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Чічон”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “El Chichón”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.