Pacaya Volcano
Pacaya Volcano is in Central Highlands region of Guatemala. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: USGS, Public domain.
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 2,552 metres
- Description: mountain and national park in Guatemala
- Also known as: “Pacaya”, “Volcán Pacava”, and “Volcano Pacaya”
- Historically known as: “Volcano Pacayal”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lake Ipala.
Lake Ipala
Lake
Laguna de Calderas is a crater lake in the municipality of Amatitlán, Guatemala, Guatemala. It is located approximately 6 km south of Lake Amatitlán and 3 km north of the currently active vent of the Pacaya volcano.
Pacaya Volcano
- Categories: mountain, national park of Guatemala, and landform
- Location: Central Highlands, Guatemala, Central America, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
14.3821° or 14° 22′ 56″ northLongitude
-90.6017° or 90° 36′ 6″ westElevation
2,552 metres (8,373 feet)Open location code
766F99JX+R8OpenStreetMap ID
node 299644153OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
Discover Pacaya Volcano from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Vietnamese—“Pacaya Volcano” goes by many names.
- 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-vulkaan”
- Dutch: “Pacaya”
- Egyptian Arabic: “پاكايا”
- Finnish: “Pacaya”
- French: “Pacaya”
- French: “Volcan Pacaya”
- German: “Pacaya”
- Greek: “Πακάγια”
- Hebrew: “פקאיה”
- Hungarian: “Pacaya”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Pacaya”
- Japanese: “パカヤ”
- Japanese: “パカヤ山”
- Japanese: “パカヤ火山”
- Khmer: “ប៉ាកាយ៉ា”
- Korean: “파카야산”
- Ladin: “Pacaya”
- Limburgan: “Pacaya”
- Lithuanian: “Pakaja”
- Malay: “Gunung berapi Pacaya”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pacaya”
- Norwegian: “Pacaya”
- Persian: “آتشفشان پاکایا”
- Persian: “اتشفشان پاکایا”
- Persian: “پاکایا”
- Polish: “Pacaya”
- Portuguese: “Pacaya”
- Russian: “Pacaya”
- Russian: “Пакайя”
- Russian: “Пакая”
- Slovak: “Pacaya”
- Slovenian: “Pacaya”
- Spanish: “Pacaya”
- Spanish: “Volcan de Pacaya”
- Spanish: “Volcán de Pacaya”
- Spanish: “Volcan Pacaya”
- Spanish: “Volcán Pacaya”
- Swedish: “Pacaya”
- Ukrainian: “Пакая”
- Vietnamese: “Pacaya”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Pacaya Volcano”. Photo: USGS, Public domain.