ParÃcutin
The volcano Paricutin in Mexico.
The volcano Paricutin has a height of 2,800 meters and is located in the Mexican state of Michoacán. The city of Uruapan is located about 20 kilometers southeast of the volcano.
Formation
The volcano was born on 20 February 1943. Doing so, a new vent opened at about 40,000 km ² of Michoacán - Guanajuato volcanic field, which covers more than 900 monogenetic cinder cone ( only once erupting volcanoes). Average can be expected about two outbreaks per 1000 years in this field.
To his birth is shrouded in a lot of conflicting stories. The best known is that of the farmer Dionisio Pulido and his wife Paula, who lived on her cornfield the birth of the volcano with a muffled "pop". One day later the volcano was already ten feet high, and on February 22, after all, already 50 meters.
Active phase
Just one year after its creation, had the mountain, which was named soon after the nearby village of Paricutin, reaches a height of 336 meters.
Over the years, the villages of San Juan Parangaricutiro and Paricutin of ash fall and lava flows were covered. Since the destruction vonstattenging slowly could not be evacuated in time, and there were no casualties among the population. Remains of a village church tower in the vicinity of the volcano from a field of solidified lava.
In 1952, the volcano ceased its activities. He had grown to 424 meters. Due to the monogenic nature of the volcanic field is not expected to further eruptions of Paricutin more.
Because of its origin of Paricutin is often called one of the wonders of nature.
Eruption of 1943
The still protruding from the lava tower of the village church of San Juan Parangaricutiro
Reception
In the novel Stiller by Max Frisch asserts the protagonist Mr. White to have worked in that very birth volcano on a tobacco plantation. He tries, inter alia, in order to convince his lawyer from the fact that he was not the sought Stiller.
The " birth" of Paricutin plays in the novel Zusters van Liefde by Albert Helman ( Uitg. Nijgh & Van Ditmar, Amsterdam, 1988) play a central role.
1970, the crater rim of the volcano was the site for one of the British- American artist Peter Hutchinson land art project.