Height: 3340 meters, Type: Stra­to­vol­cano, Sta­tus: His­tor­i­cal. The largest erup­tion occurred in 1856. The vol­cano is cur­rent­ly active. On Wednes­day, Novem­ber 3, 2021, at 6:46 a.m. local time, a phreat­ic explo­sion occurred. On Decem­ber 4, 1970, in a trop­i­cal down­pour, a Nicaraguan mil­i­tary air­craft C‑47 trans­port plane crashed into the slope of the Tur­ri­ral­ba vol­cano in Cos­ta Rica (all six peo­ple on board — three crew mem­bers and three pas­sen­gers — were killed).