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There are five villages within 45 kilometers of the volcano, Nevado del Ruiz, sometimes called Mount Ruiz, in Colombia.

* Villamaria * Manizales * Herveo * Villa Hermosa * El Libano. None of the villages are on a river or canyon from the volcano, so they were not affected by lahars. They were all affected by falling ash.

There is also a large town, Armero, 74 kilometers away on the Lagunillas River, where 23,000 people were killed by lahars, or volcanic mudflows from the November 1985 eruption. The town was destroyed.

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