This man wants to teach you how diverse Mexico's volcanoes are
John Pint
December 30, 2022
Jorge Alberto Neyra on Mexico’s fourth largest volcano, El Nevado de Toluca, in México state, which features two picturesque glacier lakes. (Photo: Jorge Alberto Neyra)
“Volcanes de México” is a beautiful book — written in Spanish — introducing the general public to Mexico’s volcanoes.
The result of over 30 years of exploration and research on the part of author Jorge Alberto Neyra Jáuregui, “Volcanes de México” has 184 pages, each presenting color photographs not only of the volcanoes but also of the flora and fauna you will find when you climb them.
The first 30 pages describe the parts of a volcano, the kinds of volcanoes there are in Mexico and everything that comes out of them, from rivers of lava to pyroclastic flows of hot gases and ash traveling at over 100 kph.
. . .
I asked Neyra how many volcanoes there are in Mexico and was quite surprised when he replied that just in the central part of the country, he figured there are over 18,000.
“I haven’t counted them, but I suspect there are actually many more than 18,000,” he said. “I started out visiting the highest ones and then went looking at many others, and of those, I selected 33 for this publication.”
More:
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/travel/this-man-teaches-mexicos-volcanoes/
= new reply since forum marked as read
I wore out a Cheech and Chong reference by gesturing toward the volcano whenever we went outside and saying, “still smokin’.’
On edit: I was surprised to find that Mount St. Helens resembled Popocatepetl with its conical shape and snowy sides. No resemblance remains after St. Helens erupted violently in 1980.
