

Isla de El Tigre, en el Golfo de Fonseca, perteneciente a Honduras. Vista desde el muelle de Coyolito Tags: Tiger Island View |
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This is about the island off Honduras. For the Australian theme park attraction featuring captive tigers, see Dreamworld.
El Tigre is an island located in the Gulf of Fonseca, a body of water on the Pacific coast of Central America. The island is a conical basaltic stratovolcano and the southernmost volcano in Honduras. It belongs to Valle department. Together with a few tiny satellite islets and rocks (e.g. Isla Comandante off the north coast), it forms the municipality of Amapala, with an area of 75.2 km� and a population of 2,482 as of the census of 2001 (of which 4 people were living on Isla Comandante).
Three countries, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, have coastline along the Gulf of Fonseca, and all three have been involved in a lengthly dispute over the rights to the gulf (Headlands and bays) and the islands located there within. In 1992, a chamber of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) decided the Land, Island and Maritime Frontier Dispute, of which the gulf dispute was a part. The ICJ determined that El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua were to share control of the Gulf of Fonseca. El Salvador was awarded the islands of Meanguera and Meanguerita, and Honduras was awarded the island of El Tigre.
Photo Caption: El Tigre, seen from Coyolito
Elevation M: 783
Prominence M: 783
Birth Location: Honduras
Range: Central America Volcanic Arc
Coordinates: coord13.272N87.641Wtype:mountain
Type: Stratovolcano
Age: Holocene
Last Eruption: Unknown