Paricutin
Paricutin is a notorious volcano in the state of Michoacan in Mexico. It is the youngest volcano on earth. Two small villages nearby were destroyed in the volcano's first eruption.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 2,800 metres
- Description: dormant scoria-cone volcano in Mexico
- Also known as: “Cono Parícutin”, “Paracutin”, “Parancutín”, “Parícutin”, “Paricutin Cone”, “Volcán de Parícutin”, “Volcan Paricutin”, and “Volcán Parícutin”
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Paricutin
- Categories: mountain, cinder cone, and landform
- Location: Michoacan, Pacific Coast, Mexico, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
19.4932° or 19° 29′ 35″ northLongitude
-102.2513° or 102° 15′ 5″ westElevation
2,800 metres (9,186 feet)Open location code
75FVFPVX+7FOpenStreetMap ID
node 269914847OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Paricutin” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باريكوتين”
- Arabic: “بركان باريكتين”
- Arabic: “بركان باريكوتين”
- Armenian: “Պարիկուտին”
- Asturian: “Paricutín”
- Azerbaijani: “Parícutin”
- Bengali: “পেরিকোটিন”
- Bulgarian: “Парикутин”
- Catalan: “Paricutín”
- Cebuano: “Volcá Paricutín”
- Chinese: “帕里库廷火山”
- Chinese: “帕里庫廷火山”
- Czech: “Paricutín”
- Dhivehi: “ޕަރިކްޓީން އަލިފާން ފަރުބަދަ”
- Dutch: “Paricutin”
- Dutch: “Paricutín”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل بركان باريكوتين”
- Estonian: “Paricutin”
- Estonian: “Paricutín”
- Finnish: “Paricutin”
- Finnish: “Parícutin”
- French: “Le volcan Paricutin”
- French: “Paricutin”
- French: “Paricutín”
- Georgian: “პარიკუტინი”
- German: “Paricutin”
- German: “Paricutín”
- Greek: “Παρικουτίν”
- Greek: “Παρίκουτιν”
- Hebrew: “פריקוטין”
- Hindi: “पारिकुटीन”
- Hindi: “पैरीक्यूटिन”
- Hungarian: “Parícutin”
- Icelandic: “Paricutín”
- Icelandic: “Parícutin”
- Indonesian: “Paricutin”
- Indonesian: “Paricutín”
- Italian: “Paricutín”
- Italian: “Parícutin”
- Japanese: “パリクティン山”
- Javanese: “Parícutin”
- Korean: “파리쿠틴산”
- Ladin: “Parícutin”
- Lithuanian: “Parikutinas”
- Lojban: “cmanrparikutina”
- Lojban: “Parícutin”
- Lojban: “parikuTIN”
- Macedonian: “Парикутин”
- Malayalam: “Paricutin”
- Malayalam: “പ്യാരിക്യൂട്ടിൻ”
- Marathi: “पारिकुटीन ज्वालामुखी”
- Marathi: “पारिकुटीन”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Paricutin”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Paricutín”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Paricutín”
- Norwegian: “Paricutín”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Paricutin”
- Papiamento: “Paricutin”
- Persian: “آتشفشان پاریکوتین”
- Persian: “اتشفشان پاریکوتین”
- Persian: “پاریکوتین”
- Polish: “Paricutin”
- Polish: “Paricutín”
- Portuguese: “Paricutín”
- Portuguese: “Vulcão de Paricutín”
- Romanian: “Paricutin”
- Russian: “Парикутин”
- Scots: “Parícutin”
- Serbian: “Парикутин”
- Slovak: “Paricutín”
- Slovenian: “Paricutín”
- Slovenian: “Volcán de Parícutin”
- Slovenian: “vulkan Parícutin”
- Spanish: “Paricutin”
- Spanish: “Paricutín”
- Swahili: “Parícutin”
- Swedish: “Dioniso Pulido”
- Swedish: “Paricutin”
- Swedish: “Paricutín”
- Swedish: “Parícutin”
- Tagalog: “Parícutin”
- Turkish: “Paricutín”
- Ukrainian: “Парікутин”
- Venetian: “Parícutin”
- Vietnamese: “Núi lửa Parícutin”
- Vietnamese: “Paricutin”
- Vietnamese: “Paricutín”
- Vietnamese: “Parícutin”
- Vietnamese: “Volcán de Parícutin”
- Waray (Philippines): “Parícutin”
- Wu Chinese: “帕里库廷火山”
- “Paricutín”
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