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Volcano Galeras
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Dear friends:

This photo I took many years ago, in one of the many visits back then to the south of my country.

Then the rise of digital photography was a utopia, and this takes me was unfortunately only the hard copy, which, through a scanning method, I wanted to recover.

This copy was long kept in a book, which in some sections of it, has lost quality and sharpness, but thanks to the tools of Photoshop, I tried to save at least the essence of the composition, and share it with all of you.

Scanner: HP Scanjet 3375 to 2.700 dp.

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Galeras is a volcano in southern Colombia, which is located 9 miles from the city of Pasto.

His name given by the spanish conquistadors because his silhouette appeared to be similar to that of those sentenced to hard labour in Spain at that time.
The indians called him in his Urcunina dialect, which means mountain of fire.

It is an active volcano, which has enabled the city of Pasto develop their feet. It is a great place for the practice of climbing, which is done youth in the region since most children. The top is a huge circle within which raises the internal cone with several active craters.

Due to the risk posed by the volcano, the colombian Government been considering the purchase of the land (farms and ranches) next, to make it a nature reserve area and thus avoid disasters.

Elevation: 4,276 above sea level.
Diameter of the crater: 320 meters.
Depth: 80 meters.
It has other smaller craters nearby; has no glaciers.

On January 14, 1993, while a group of geologists collected samples as part of the activities of a congress of volcanology, the volcano erupt presented an event in which nine people died. This event is held grimly acknowledged by many vulcanologists of the world, because they were allowed to establish a clear direct relationship between eruptive events and seismic type screw.

The volcano presented a small eruption in the early morning of Thursday, November 24, 2005 by throwing smoke, ash and accelerating the evacuation of the surrounding towns. The city of Pasto was covered by a layer of ash up to 3 cm.

Another explosive eruption occurred on July 12, 2006 at 10:58 in the morning, the column emission reached 8 km altitude and ash fall occurred in various municipalities.

On November 23, 2006 were evacuated 8,000 colombians at risk of eruption.

It was submitted on January 17, 2008 at 20:06 GMT an eruption of an explosive, introducing a column of steam and ash consists of about 8 km in height, with the issuance of pyroclasts and a shock wave that was perceived to a large part of the city of Pasto and the surrounding populations. Despite the risk many inhabitants of the areas near refused to evacuate.