Colombia
Caldas Department
Villamaría

Nevado del Ruiz

Nevado del Ruiz, also known as La Mesa de Herveo is a volcano on the border of the departments of and in , being the highest point of both.
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  • Type: Volcano with an elevation of 5,300 metres
  • Description: volcanic mountain in Colombia
  • Also known as: “Cumanday”, “Glaciar Nevado del Ruiz”, “La Mesa de Herveo”, “Mesa de Herveo”, and “Nevado El Ruiz”
Photo: Johan Huertas, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Los Nevados National Park.

Photo: Edgar Jiménez, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Los Nevados National Natural Park is a located in the of the . The park features Colombia's highest and northernmost active volcanoes including the glacier-capped Nevado del Ruiz, , and , and the formerly glaciated superpáramo peaks of , Santa Rosa and .

Nevado del Ruiz

Latitude
4.88194° or 4° 52′ 55″ north
Longitude
-75.31782° or 75° 19′ 4″ west
Elevation
5,300 metres (17,388 feet)
Open location code
67P6VMJJ+QV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1366302165
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Geo­Names ID
3670563
Wiki­data ID
Q233351
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Zulu—“Nevado del Ruiz” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Mali Ruiz”
  • Albanian: “Mount Ruiz”
  • Albanian: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Albanian: “Ruiz”
  • Arabic: “نيفادو ديل رويز”
  • Asturian: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Basque: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Catalan: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Cebuano: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Chinese: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Chinese: “內瓦多·德·魯伊斯火山”
  • Chinese: “内瓦多·德·鲁伊斯火山”
  • Chinese: “德鲁伊斯火山”
  • Czech: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Dutch: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل نيفادو ديل رويز”
  • Esperanto: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Estonian: “Ruiz”
  • Finnish: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • French: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Galician: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Georgian: “ნევადო-დელ-რუისი”
  • German: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Greek: “Νεβάδο ντελ Ρουίζ”
  • Greek: “Νεβάδο ντελ Ρουίς”
  • Hebrew: “נוואדו דל רואיס”
  • Hungarian: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Ido: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Indonesian: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Irish: “Nevado del Ruiz (bolcán sa Cholóim)”
  • Irish: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Italian: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Japanese: “ネバド・デル・ルイス”
  • Japanese: “ネバド・デル・ルイス山”
  • Japanese: “ネバド・デル・ルイス火山”
  • Japanese: “ネバドデルルイス山”
  • Japanese: “ネバドデルルイス火山”
  • Javanese: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Korean: “네바도 델 루이즈 화산”
  • Korean: “네바도델루이스 산”
  • Korean: “네바도델루이스산”
  • Lithuanian: “Ruisas”
  • Lithuanian: “Ruiso ugnikalnis”
  • Macedonian: “Невадо дел Руис”
  • Malay: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Marathi: “नेव्हादो देल रुइझ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Norwegian: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Ossetian: “Невадо-дель-Руис”
  • Persian: “نوادو دل روئیز”
  • Persian: “نوادو دل روئیس”
  • Polish: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Portuguese: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Romanian: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Russian: “Невадо-дель-Руис”
  • Russian: “Руис”
  • Serbian: “Невадо дел Руиз”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Slovak: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Slovenian: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Spanish: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Spanish: “Volcán Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Swahili: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Swedish: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Ukrainian: “Невадо-дель-Руїз”
  • Ukrainian: “Невадо-дель-Руїс”
  • Vietnamese: “Nevado del Ruiz”
  • Zulu: “Nevado del Ruiz”

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