Volcán Barú
The Volcán Barú is an active stratovolcano and the tallest mountain in Panama, at 3,475 metres high. It lies about 35 km off the border of Costa Rica. It is also the twelfth highest peak in Central America.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Halbinger, Public domain.
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 3,474 metres
- Description: Stratovolcano in Panama
- Also known as: “Baru Volcano”, “El Volcán Barú”, “Volcan Baru”, and “Volcán de Chiriquí”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cerro Punta.
Cerro Punta
Photo: Venusicaza05, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cerro Punta is a city and corregimiento in Tierras Altas District, Chiriquí Province, Panama. Cerro Punta is located in Panama's western highlands at an altitude of 2,000 metres, just south of the Continental Divide.
Volcán Barú
- Categories: stratovolcano, mountain, and landform
- Location: Chiriquí Province, Panama, Central America, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
8.80893° or 8° 48′ 32″ northLongitude
-82.54239° or 82° 32′ 33″ westElevation
3,474 metres (11,398 feet)Open location code
66WVRF55+H2OpenStreetMap ID
node 5703131946OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
Discover Volcán Barú from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Volcán Barú” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بركان بارو”
- Armenian: “Բարու (հրաբուխ)”
- Armenian: “Բարու”
- Belarusian: “Бару”
- Belarusian: “Вулкан Бару”
- Catalan: “Barú”
- Catalan: “Chiriquí”
- Cebuano: “Volcán Barú”
- Chinese: “奇里基火山”
- Chinese: “巴鲁火山”
- Czech: “Volcán Barú”
- Dutch: “Volcan Baru”
- Dutch: “Volcán Barú”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بركان بارو”
- Finnish: “Volcán Barú”
- French: “Barú”
- Galician: “Volcán Barú”
- Georgian: “ბარუ”
- German: “Volcán Barú”
- Hebrew: “בארו”
- Hebrew: “צ’יריקי”
- Hungarian: “Barú”
- Indonesian: “Volcán Barú”
- Italian: “Barù”
- Japanese: “バル火山”
- Kazakh: “Бару”
- Ladin: “Volcán Barú”
- Latvian: “Baru”
- Lithuanian: “Baru”
- Macedonian: “Бару (вулкан)”
- Macedonian: “Бару”
- Moroccan Arabic: “بركان بارو”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Volcán Barú”
- Norwegian: “Volcán Barú”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Barú”
- Persian: “آتشفشان بارو”
- Polish: “Volcan de Chiriqui”
- Portuguese: “Barú”
- Russian: “Бару”
- Slovak: “Barú”
- Slovenian: “Volcán Barú”
- Spanish: “Volcan Baru”
- Spanish: “Volcán Barú”
- Swahili: “Mlima Baru”
- Swedish: “Barú”
- Ukrainian: “Бару”
- Venetian: “Barù”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Bosque de los Carrizales and Alto Pineda.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Cima del Volcán Barú and Baru Volcano Crater.
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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 “Volcán Barú”. Photo: Halbinger, Public domain.