Picos Fissural Volcanic System, Portugal
Picos Fissural Volcanic System is a pyroclastic cone in Portugal, 350 m (1,148 ft) high. Its last known eruption: 1500 to 1699. NOAA records no significant eruption here.
Picos Fissural Volcanic System on the map
Picos Fissural Volcanic System 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
The volcano
- Type
- Pyroclastic cone
- Elevation
- 350 m (1,148 ft)
- Country
- Portugal
- Region
- Azores
- Summit
- 37.780° N, 25.670° W
- Last known eruption
- 1500 to 1699
- Holocene activity known from
- Historical
- Smithsonian volcano number
- 382081
From Wikipedia
The Picos Volcanic Fissural System (Portuguese: Sistema Vulcânico Fissural dos Picos) is a system of scoria cones that build up the central region of the island of São Miguel (between Sete Cidades and Água de Pau volcanoes). This volcano is very young with most of it only 5000 years old. The only recorded eruption was in 1652, but seven other eruptions have taken place in the cinder cone group in the last 10,000 years.
Text from Wikipedia, “Picos Volcanic Fissural System”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted as written; the full article has the rest.
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.
Earthquakes near Picos Fissural Volcanic SystemAsh advisories and webcams on the live map
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 2026-10-01. Volcano numbers are the Smithsonian Institution’s Global Volcanism Program’s.