Laguna de Ayarza
Laguna de Ayarza is a crater lake in Guatemala. The lake is a caldera that was created some 20,000 years ago by a catastrophic eruption that destroyed a twinned volcano and blanketed the entire region with a layer of pumice.- Type: Body of water
- Description: body of water
- Also known as: “Lago de Ayarza”
Laguna de Ayarza
- Category: lake
- Location: Santa Rosa Department, Guatemala, Central America, North America
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Latitude
14.41865° or 14° 25′ 7″ north
Longitude
-90.12125° or 90° 7′ 17″ west
Elevation
1,410 metres (4,626 feet)
Open location code
766FCV9H+FF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Laguna de Ayarza” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Laguna de Ayarza”
- Dutch: “Laguna de Ayarza”
- French: “Lagune d’Ayarza”
- French: “lagune de Ayarza”
- Lithuanian: “Ajarsos lagūna”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ayarzasjøen”
- Norwegian: “Ayarzasjøen”
- Portuguese: “Laguna de Ayarza”
- Spanish: “Laguna de Ayarza”
- Swedish: “Laguna de Ayarza”
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