What a great volcano card!! Carlos read that I like volcanoes and sent me this card from his home country, Mexico.
Karten Collection * Photo by Erick Schnabel
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US-2636847, sent by Carlos.
Volcán Popocatépetl, whose name is the Aztec word for smoking mountain, towers to 5426 m 70 km SE of Mexico City to form North America's 2nd-highest volcano. The glacier-clad stratovolcano contains a steep-walled, 250-450 m deep crater. The generally symmetrical volcano is modified by the sharp-peaked Ventorrillo on the NW, a remnant of an earlier volcano.
Volcán Popocatépetl, whose name is the Aztec word for smoking mountain, towers to 5426 m 70 km SE of Mexico City to form North America's 2nd-highest volcano. The glacier-clad stratovolcano contains a steep-walled, 250-450 m deep crater. The generally symmetrical volcano is modified by the sharp-peaked Ventorrillo on the NW, a remnant of an earlier volcano.
Popocatepetl is one of Mexico's most active volcanoes. After almost 50 years of
dormancy, "Popo" came back to life in 1994 and has since then been producing
powerful explosions at irregular intervals.
In the past centuries befor
European invasions, large eruptions produced giant mud flows that have buried
Atzteque settlements, even entire pyramids. - in: http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/popocatepetl.html
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