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  • Commonly referred to as Pop, El Popo, Don Goyo, or Popo.
  • An Active volcano and the second highest peak in Mexico.
  • Popocatépetl comes from the Nahuatl words popōca 'it smokes' and tepētl 'mountain', thus Smoking Mountain.
  • Only 70km to the southeast of Mexico City.
  • Has a steep-walled 400x600m wide crater
  • Popo's magma is a mixture of dacite and basaltic andesite
  • Elevation-5426m
  • Approximately 730,000yrs old
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