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The park covers an area of 65.55 km 2, and covers the upper slopes of two adjacent volcanic mountains, Nevado de Colima (4330 m) and Volcán de Colima (3958 m), also known as Volcán de Fuego. The park boundary follows the 3200-meter contour. Nevado de Colima is older and inactive. Volcán de Fuego is Mexico's most active volcano. [2]
Pico de Orizaba exceeds 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) of topographic prominence, Popocatépetl exceeds 3,000 meters (9,800 feet), and Nevado de Colima exceeds 2,500 meters (8,200 feet). Seven mountain peaks of México exceed 2,000 meters (6,600 feet), the following 26 ultra-prominent summits exceed 1,500 meters (4,920 feet), and 42 summits exceed ...
The state park is located in the state of Jalisco, on the slopes of the volcanic peaks Nevado de Colima and Volcán de Colima. The park covers 72.14 km 2, and is composed of four separate enclaves. The two northern enclaves lie east and west of Nevado de Colima, and adjoin Nevado de Colima National Park. The southern enclaves lie east and west ...
Major active volcanoes of Mexico. From west to east, volcanoes part of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic belt are Nevado de Colima, Parícutin, Popocatépetl, and Pico de Orizaba. Prior to the formation of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, an older, but related volcanic belt, the Sierra Madre Occidental occupied the area.
The park is named after the feature it is meant to protect, the Nevado de Toluca or Xinantecatl volcano, with the main entrance in the community of Las Raíces, Temascaltepec. From there a road winds to the top of the volcano for 21 km. [19] The volcano has long been extinct and is Mexico's fourth tallest peak at 4,690 meters above sea level. [5]
Pico de Orizaba (Citlaltépetl), a stratovolcano on the boundary between the states of Puebla and Veracruz, is the highest mountain peak of Mexico. This article comprises four sortable tables of mountain summits of Mexico that are higher than any other point north or south of their latitude or east or west their longitude in Mexico.
Nevado de Colima, also known as Tzapotépetl, lies 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north of its more active neighbor and is the taller of the two at 4,271 meters (14,012 feet). It is the 26th-most prominent peak in North America. [5]
Los Nevados National Natural Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Natural Los Nevados) is a national park located in the Cordillera Central of the Colombian Andes.The park features Colombia's highest and northernmost active volcanoes including the glacier-capped Nevado del Ruiz, Nevado del Tolima, and Nevado de Santa Isabel, and the glacier-free superpáramo peaks (paramillos) of Cisne, Santa Rosa ...