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Izalco is an active stratovolcano [2] on the side of the Santa Ana Volcano, which is located in western El Salvador. It is situated on the southern flank of the Santa Ana volcano. Izalco erupted almost continuously from 1770 (when it formed) to 1958 [3] earning it the nickname of "Lighthouse of the Pacific", and experienced a flank eruption in ...
Izalco (Pipil: Itzalku) [1] is a town and a municipality in the Sonsonate department of El Salvador. Volcan Izalco is an icon of the country of El Salvador, a very young volcano on the flank of Santa Ana volcano. From when it was born in 1770 until 1966, it was in almost continuous eruption and was known as the "lighthouse of the Pacific."
The grinding action of these two plates creates a fault (similar to the San Andreas fault in California) that runs the length of the valley of the Rio Motagua in Guatemala. [1] Motion along this fault is the source of earthquakes in northernmost El Salvador. [1] El Salvador has a long history of destructive earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. [1]
This volcanic arc, which has a length of 1,100 kilometers (680 mi) [1] [2] is formed by an active subduction zone, with the Cocos plate subducting underneath the Caribbean plate, [3] the North American plate and the Panama plate. [4] Volcanic activity is recorded in the Central American region since the Permian. [4]
It is located in the archaeological region of the Petén Basin in what is now northern Guatemala. The history of human occupation in Mesoamerica is divided into stages or periods. These are known, with slight variation depending on region, as the Paleo-Indian, the Archaic, the Preclassic (or Formative), the Classic, and the Postclassic. The ...
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The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume III. Total War: Economy, Society and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-03995-7. Rohwer, Jürgen (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea, 1939-1945: The Naval History of World War II (3rd revised ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.
The HistoryWorld website, which is free to use, also contains more than 5000 entries from Gascoigne's Encyclopedia of Britain, originally published by Macmillan in 1993, [12] and a pilot project, Places in History for Richmond-upon-Thames, which uses placemarks in Google Maps to identify the exact position of a building, street or other feature ...