Cerro Prieto, Mexico

Lava dome · 223 m (732 ft)

Cerro Prieto is a lava dome in Mexico, 223 m (732 ft) high. NOAA records no significant eruption here.

Cerro Prieto on the map

Cerro Prieto and the volcanoes within 300 km, colored by when each last erupted.

Since 1964
1900 to 1963
1800s
AD 1 to 1799
Before AD 1, or undated

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The volcano

Type: Lava dome
Elevation: 223 m (732 ft)
Country: Mexico
Summit: 32.418° N, 115.305° W
Last known eruption: Unknown
Holocene activity known from: Holocene
Smithsonian volcano number: 341000

Significant eruptions

NOAA records eruptions that killed, did damage, were very large, or set off a tsunami or earthquake.

None on record.

Around it

The volcanoes within 300 km.

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Sources

Volcanoes and significant eruptions from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-09-24. Volcano numbers are the Smithsonian Institution’s Global Volcanism Program’s.