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Paricutin

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Pa·ri·cu·tin  (pä-rk-tn)
A volcano, 2,272.3 m (7,450 ft) high, of west-central Mexico west of Mexico City. It erupted from a cornfield in February 1943 and grew more than 458 m (1,500 ft) in that year alone.


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Paricutin is a cinder cone volcano located in Mexico that is located near a village covered by lava.
Smoke pours from the recently formed Paricutin volcano in Mexico.
They discovered a series of vivid cliff paintings in the shadow of the Paricutin volcano and encouraged the scientific community to come and study them.
 
 
 
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