Major Volcanoes in South America
Paricutin is an active volcano located in southwestern Mexico. Being the youngest mountain in the world, Paricutin was created from an eruption of lava and ash through a fissure in a cornfield in Mexico on February 20, 1943. The cone grew through the ejection of volcanic ash and the accumulated material reached 7.5 meters (about 25 feet) high in the first day. It reached about 50 meters (about 164 feet) high in the second day, about 140m (about 460 ft) in the first week, and more than 336 m (more than 1100 ft) by the end of the year. Eruptions continued until 1952, and today the mountain reaches 410 m above its base.
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