Travel Reference
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Though volcanic explosions have been going on here for millions of years, today's
landscape has its origins in the massive eruption of 85,000 years ago, termed Los Chocoy-
os, which blew volcanic ash as far as Florida and Panama. The quantity of magma ex-
pelled from below the earth's crust caused the surface terrain to collapse, forming a huge,
roughly circular hollow that soon filled with water - the Lago de Atitlán. Smaller volca-
noes rose out of the lake's southern waters thousands of years later: Volcán San Pedro
