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| Copyright: Lowell Hendrix (ldhendrix) (42) |
| Genre: Landscapes |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2006-08-26 |
| Categories: Mountain |
| Exposure: f/4, 1/400 seconds |
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| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2006-11-23 12:55 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Volcan Pacaya is one of the more popular of the 30 plus volcanoes of Guatemala because it remains active on a nearly daily basis. Every day, hundreds of locals and tourists climb the slopes and many climb all the way to the edge of the crater (I did not on this particular trip).
In this first of several posts of my climb in 2006, the crater is viewed from near the bottom edge of one the recent lava flows. Notice the scorching on the side of the tree facing the lava flow.
Note from Google Earth:
Volcano types:
Complex volcano
Summit Elev: 2552 m
Latitude: 14.381°N
Longitude: 90.601°W
Eruptions from Pacaya, one of Guatemala's most active volcanoes, are frequently visible from Guatemala City, the nation's capital. Pacaya is a complex basaltic volcano constructed just outside the southern topographic rim of the 14 x 16 km Pleistocene Amatitlán caldera. A cluster of dacitic lava domes occupies the southern caldera floor. The post-caldera Pacaya massif includes the Cerro Grande lava dome and a younger volcano to the SW. Collapse of Pacaya volcano about 1100 years ago produced a debris-avalanche deposit that extends 25 km onto the Pacific coastal plain and left an arcuate somma rim inside which the modern Pacaya volcano (MacKenney cone) grew. A subsidiary crater, Cerro Chino, was constructed on the NW somma rim and was last active in the 19th century. During the past several decades, activity at Pacaya has consisted of frequent strombolian eruptions with intermittent lava flow extrusion that has partially filled in the caldera moat and armored the flanks of MacKenney cone, punctuated by occasional larger explosive eruptions that partially destroy the summit of the cone. |
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