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Volcanoes in Mexico

Mexico has 23 volcanoes on Detourmap — volcanoes, craters, calderas and lava fields. The best known is Popocatépetl. All of them are below.

Volcanoes
23
Of nature
23 of 174
Little known
12 of 23
Oldest
Parícutin 1943

Questions about this page

How many volcanoes are there in Mexico?

23 on this map, out of 174 nature & landscapes in Mexico. That is what Wikidata records with coordinates, a photograph and a Wikipedia article, so it is a floor rather than a census.

What is the best known volcanoe in Mexico?

Popocatépetl. North America volcano.

Which volcanoes in Mexico are the least visited?

12 of the 23 rank as little known — a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages. They sit at the bottom of the ranked list below.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.

Volcanoes elsewhere

All volcanoes worldwide →

More in Mexico

All 174 nature & landscapes in Mexico → · All 315 places in Mexico →