Climbing Nicaragua’s Concepción Volcano

Posted on June 30, 2021

Concepción Volcano is the second-highest volcano in Nicaragua and one of the most perfectly cone-shaped volcanoes of the Americas. Climbing is a tough, but exhilarating experience, as long as you are aware of the dangers! If you’re not ready to tackle Concepción, climb its neighbour, Maderas Volcano instead.

It was a day of spectacular slips, slides, and falls but other than scratches and bruises, we did not have any serious injuries.

For a long time, I gazed on Google Earth at Nicaragua’s dumbbell-shaped Ometepe Island (locally called Isla de Ometepe) in the centre of Lago de Nicaragua. I found it fascinating that two almost symmetrical cone volcanoes, connected by a narrow isthmus, popped out along the west side of this large lake. The largest cone on the north-west part of the island, Volcán Concepción, is a 1,610-metre-high (5,283 ft) active stratovolcano. It is Nicaragua’s second-highest volcano and one of the most perfectly shaped volcanoes of the Americas.

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GlobeRovers Magazine July 2021