Miravalles, seen here looking NE from the Guayabo caldera floor, is the youngest feature of the volcanic complex. Multiple edifices have grown in the eastern part of the 15 x 20 km caldera, which formed sometime between 1.5 million and 600,000 years ago.

Photo by Guillermo Alvarado, 1985 (Instituto Coastarricense de Electricidad).

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Keywords: stratovolcano | caldera

Miravalles