Pacaya Volcano

Pacaya Volcano is in region of . Pacaya is an active volcano that showed spectacular eruptions for several years. There is still some volcanic activity but there is no hot lava to be seen anymore.
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  • Type: Volcano with an elevation of 2,552 metres
  • Description: mountain and national park in Guatemala
  • Also known as: “Pacaya”, “Pacaya-vulkaan”, “Volcan de Pacaya”, “Volcan Pacaya”, “Volcán Pacaya”, “Volcano Pacaya”, “Пакайя”, “آتشفشان پاکایا”, “اتشفشان پاکایا”, “パカヤ山”, and “パカヤ火山”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Lake Ipala.

Lake
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 4.0.
Laguna de Calderas is a crater lake in the municipality of , Guatemala, .

Pacaya Volcano

Latitude
14.3821° or 14° 22′ 56″ north
Longitude
-90.6017° or 90° 36′ 6″ west
Elevation
2,552 metres (8,373 feet)
Open location code
766F99JX+R8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 299644153
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Wiki­data ID
Q753924
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Pacaya Volcano” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Pacaya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pakaya vulkanı”
  • Catalan: “Pacaya”
  • Catalan: “Volcà Pacaya”
  • Cebuano: “Volcán de Pacaya”
  • Chinese: “帕卡亚火山”
  • Chinese: “帕卡亞火山”
  • Czech: “Pacaya”
  • Danish: “Pacaya”
  • Dutch: “Pacaya”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “پاكايا”
  • Finnish: “Pacaya”
  • French: “Pacaya”
  • German: “Pacaya”
  • Greek: “Πακάγια”
  • Hebrew: “פקאיה”
  • Hungarian: “Pacaya”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Pacaya”
  • Japanese: “パカヤ”
  • Khmer: “ប៉ាកាយ៉ា”
  • Korean: “파카야산”
  • Ladin: “Pacaya”
  • Limburgan: “Pacaya”
  • Lithuanian: “Pakaja”
  • Malay: “Gunung berapi Pacaya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pacaya”
  • Norwegian: “Pacaya”
  • Persian: “پاکایا”
  • Polish: “Pacaya”
  • Portuguese: “Pacaya”
  • Russian: “Пакая”
  • Slovak: “Pacaya”
  • Slovenian: “Pacaya”
  • Spanish: “Volcán de Pacaya”
  • Swedish: “Pacaya”
  • Ukrainian: “Пакая”
  • Vietnamese: “Pacaya”

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