Volcán San Pedro (or ''Las Yeguas'') is a
stratovolcano on the shores of
Lago de Atitlán __NOTOC__
Lago, which means "lake" in Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Galician, may refer to:
Places
*Lago, Calabria, a ''comune'' in the Province of Cosenza, Italy
*Lago, Mexico, a municipality zone in the State of Mexico
*Lago District, a ''dis ...
, in the
Sololá Department
Sololá is a department in the west of Guatemala. The capital is the city of Sololá. Lake Atitlan is a key feature surrounded by a number of the municipalities.
Municipalities
# Concepción
# Nahualá
# Panajachel
# San Andrés Semetaba ...
of southern
Guatemala.
At its base is the village of
San Pedro La Laguna
San Pedro La Laguna () is a Guatemalan town on the southwest shore of Lake Atitlán. For centuries, San Pedro La Laguna has been inhabited by the Tz'utujil people, and in recent years it has also become a tourist destination for its Spanish langu ...
.
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Notes
References
External links
San Pedro, Lake Atitlan videoshowing the view from the top.
Sololá Department
Sierra Madre de Chiapas
Stratovolcanoes of Guatemala
Subduction volcanoes
Volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the Crust (geology), crust of a Planet#Planetary-mass objects, planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and volcanic gas, gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
On Ear ...
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