Chicabal

{{Short description|Inactive volcano in Guatemala}}

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| name = Chicabal

| photo = Laguna Chicabal2.jpg

| photo_caption = Chicabal crater lake

| elevation_m = 2,720

| coordinates = {{coord|14|43|N|91|32|W|type:mountain|display=inline}}

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| location = Quetzaltenango department, Guatemala

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| type = Inactive volcano

| volume = 12 km³ (2.9 cu mi)

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Chicabal is a {{convert|2720|m|ft}} inactive volcano in the Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala.{{cite journal|last1=Fernandez-Rivas|first1=R|title=Geothermal resources of Guatemala, Central America|journal=Geothermics|volume=2|year=1970|issn=0375-6505|doi=10.1016/0375-6505(70)90408-6|page=1024|bibcode=1970Geoth...2.1015F}} Its edifice has a volume of {{convert|12|km3|abbr=on}} .{{coord|14.79|N|91.66|W|display=title}}{{cite book|last1=Siebert|first1=Lee|last2=Alvarado|first2=Guillermo E.|last3=Vallance|first3=James W.|last4=van Wyk de Vries|first4=Benjamin|title=Volcanic Hazards in Central America |chapter=Large-volume volcanic edifice failures in Central America and associated hazards|volume=412|year=2006|pages=1–26|doi=10.1130/2006.2412(01)|isbn=9780813724126 }} The volcano has a crater lake, Chicabal Lake, and is constructed within a collapse scar that may have been the consequence of a failure of a previous edifice.{{cite journal|last1=MacVean|first1=Charles|last2=Schuster|first2=Jack C.|title=Altitudinal Distribution of Passalid Beetles (Coleoptera, Passalidae) and Pleistocene Dispersal on the Volcanic Chain of Northern Central America|journal=Biotropica|volume=13|issue=1|year=1981|pages=29|issn=0006-3606|doi=10.2307/2387868|jstor=2387868 |bibcode=1981Biotr..13...29M }} Part of the mountain range of the Sierra Madre, it is associated with Santa Maria volcano.{{cite journal|last1=Rose|first1=William I.|title=Santa María, Guatemala: Bimodal soda-rich calc-alkalic stratovolcano|journal=Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research|volume=33|issue=1–3|year=1987|pages=109–129|issn=0377-0273|doi=10.1016/0377-0273(87)90056-4|bibcode=1987JVGR...33..109R }}