Acatenango or Fuego Climbing notes shared by Mountain-Forecast users

  • October 17, 2014
    aniya washington(age10) from United States

    -They erupt explosively, blowing out burning ashes and cinders.
    -the ashes and cinders build up to form the cone shape.
    -Acatenango, has twin volcanoes with it.
    -Fuego, one of Central America's most active volcanoes, is one of the three large stratovolcanoes over looking Guatemala's former capital,Antigua.
    -it typically has strombolian activity and sometimes phrases of intense lava fountaining, producing tall ash plumes and dangerous pyroclastic flows.
    -Dominantly explosive, construction of lava domes and extrusion of viscous lava flows. In near constant activity, at least during the past centuries.