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Popocatépetl (UK: / ˌ p ɒ p ə ˈ k æ t ə p ɛ t əl, ˌ p ɒ p ə k æ t ə ˈ p ɛ t əl / POP-ə-KAT-ə-pet-əl, -kat-ə-PET-əl, US: / ˌ p oʊ p-/ POHP-, Spanish: [popokaˈtepetl] ⓘ; Nahuatl languages: Popōcatepētl [popoːkaˈtepeːt͡ɬ] ⓘ) is an active stratovolcano located in the states of Puebla, Morelos, and Mexico in central Mexico.
View of the Puebla Valley, with Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl in the distance, 1906. Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl refers to the volcanoes Popocatépetl ("the Smoking Mountain") and Iztaccíhuatl ("white woman" in Nahuatl, sometimes called the Mujer Dormida "sleeping woman" in Spanish) [1] in Iztaccíhuatl–Popocatépetl National Park, [2] [3] which overlook the Valley of Mexico and the ...
Iztaccíhuatl or Ixtaccíhuatl (both forms also spelled without the accent) (Nahuatl pronunciation: [istakˈsiwat͡ɬ] ⓘ or, as spelled with the x, [iʃtakˈsiwat͡ɬ]) is a 5,230 m (17,160 ft) [1] dormant volcanic mountain in Mexico located on the border between the State of Mexico and Puebla within Izta-Popo Zoquiapan National Park.
Popocatépetl, the country’s largest active volcano, is located in the states of Puebla, Morelos, and the state of Mexico in central Mexico.
The park extends north and south, following a line of volcanic peaks. Popocatépetl is the southernmost peak, the highest in the park at 5,426 m (17,802 ft), and the second-highest in Mexico. It is volcanically active, with the latest eruptive period extending f
Mexico’s National Disaster Prevention Center said Wednesday the Popocatépetl volcano, located just 50 miles from the country's capital, has erupted 13 times in the past day and urged people to ...
Although Popocatepetl is an active volcano, none of the monasteries have been affected by this activity, although some have been damaged by seismic activity. The danger of the volcano is low in these monasteries and in the more than one hundred historical monuments of the region, because in this area there are low lava flows from the volcano ...
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