COSTA RICA
VICINITY OF TENORIO VOLCANO
From its top spreads the sight for Guatuso and San Carlos lowlands. It`s covered with savannas, rain forest (at mid elevation) and cloud forest (above). From its slopes snakes down the Rio Frio. A legend exists of an eruption in 1816, but the volcano was observed to be densely forested in 1864 and is not considered to have erupted in historical time. Since 1989 it has been under a pre-feasibility study to determine its geothermal potential. In 1998 the vicinity of the volcano was hit by the 1 R scale earthquake.
VOLCANOS
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