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Popocatepetl seen from UNAM (instituto de Ecologia with Sigma 500 mm), Mexico City. The name Popocatépetl comes from the Nahuatl words popōca (Nahuatl pronunciation:) "it smokes" and tepētl [ˈtepeːt͡ɬ] "mountain", meaning Smoking Mountain. The volcano is also referred to by Mexicans as El Popo affectionately, or to shorten the full name.
Popocatépetl became an active volcano, raining fire on Earth in blind rage at the loss of his beloved. [4] A different tale was told by the Nahuatl-speakers of Tetelcingo, Morelos, [5] according to whom Iztaccíhuatl was the wife of Popo, but Xinantécatl wanted her, and he and Popocatépetl hurled rocks at each other in anger.
The park protects 39,819.08 hectares (98,395.1 acres), [1] surrounding Mexico's second- and third-highest peaks, the Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl volcanoes (respectively 5,426 m (17,802 ft) [3] and 5,230 m (17,160 ft)) [4] [5] [6] as well as the area of the Hacienda de Zoquiapán, and its annexed areas (anexas) of Zoquiapan, Ixtlahuacán ...
The volcano was dormant for about half of last century, but rumbled back to life with a series of relatively small eruptions beginning in the 1990s. The government ordered evacuations then, and ...
Three million people living near Mexico’s nearly 18,000-foot Popocatépetl volcano are facing evacuation orders as it continues to spew ash across the region, forcing schools to close and ...
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 ...
how the earth was made premiered as a 90-minute documentary special, narrated by Edward Herrmann, that aired on the History Channel on December 16, 2007, and focused on the geological history of Earth. The History Channel released the original documentary film to Region 1 DVD through Warner Home Video on April 15, 2008, and to Blu-ray through A ...
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