Where is paricutin volcano mexico

Immediately more smoke began to rise with a hiss or whistle, loud and continuous; and there was a smell of sulfur. I was so stunned I hardly knew what to do. At last I came to my senses and I remembered the sacred Lord of the Miracles. I shouted out 'Blessed Lord of the Miracles, you brought me into this world -- now save me!

I looked into the fissure where the smoke was rising and my fear disappeared for the first time. I ran to see if I could save my family, my companions and my oxen, but I could not see them and I thought that they must have taken the oxen to the spring for water.

I saw that there was no water in the spring. I was very frightened, and I mounted my mare and galloped to Paricutin where I found my wife and son and friends waiting for me. Mexico has its own version of Pompeii in the western state of Michoacan, where the ruins of a church mark the site where the village of San Juan Parangaricutiro stood before it was buried by ash and lava from the Paricutin Volcano, the world's youngest fire mountain.

Like southern Italy's Vesuvius, which along with Pompeii wiped away the towns of Herculaneum and other villages when it erupted in AD 79, Paritucin buried the town from which it took its name along with San Juan Parangaricutiro when it burst into existence in But, in contrast to the huge Italian volcano, which probably killed thousands when it blew - although the exact casualty count will forever be unknown - the Mexican volcano caused no fatalities during its spectacular birth, since local residents managed to leave the area before the lava flowed into the village a few days later.

Currently, the site where San Juan Parangaricutiro stood is a tourist attraction, a barren, lava-covered area except for the ruins of the church, the bell tower, part of the facade and an altar of which survived and where people now come to pray and light candles. Francisco Lazaro, 95, uses a cane to walk among the volcanic rocks, telling visitors the story of the volcano's birth.

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