The north side of Popocatépetl with the Ventorrillo glacier near the summit is shown here during an explosion on 26 April 1996. To the lower right is the El Ventorrillo peak at around 5,000 m elevation.

Photo by Hugo Delgado-Granados, 1996 (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).

This image is made available under the Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0 license terms.

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Popocatépetl