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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
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 ...
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
The Earliest Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl (Spanish: Primeros Monasterios en las faldas del Popocatépetl) are sixteen earliest 16th-century monasteries which were built by the Augustinians, the Franciscans and the Dominicans in order to evangelize the areas south and east of the Popocatépetl volcano in central Mexico.
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.
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Glaciar Norte was a glacier located on the volcanic peak of Popocatépetl in the Mexican State of Puebla. [1] In 1964, the glacier was estimated to be 600 metres (2,000 ft) long and cover 0.2 square kilometres (0.077 sq mi) on the north side of Popocatépetl.
The area has an eruption warning system of three colors—red, yellow and green—which depend on the status of Popocatepetl. Green means that the volcano is quiet, yellow that there is activity and caution is advised and red indicates a current or imminent eruption. When the status turns to yellow, tourism to the area plummets to about half ...