tonyburton
Nov 28, 2008, 5:08 PM
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Quoting from page 121 of that essential guidebook:
Western Mexico - A Traveller's Treasury" (copies still available...)
Ceboruco Volcano
A short distance further west on Highway 15 is Ceboruco volcano which has a cobblestone road to the top. The road starts from the old and picturesque village of Jala, eight kilometres off the main highway. The road up Ceboruco is a geologist’s or biologist’s dream come true, a slowly unfolding series of volcanic forms and different types of vegetation with abundant surprises even for the scientifically expert. Small wonder that the great German botanist, Karl Theodor Hartweg, was so impressed when he visited Ceboruco in the nineteenth century.
Near the top are several short but interesting walks, some in shady, thickly vegetated valleys hidden between towering walls of blocky lava, some along the many overlapping rims of the various old craters of which this complex peak is comprised. Wherever you choose to walk, a multicoloured profusion of flowers and butterflies will greet your eyes.
On the south side of an attractive grassy valley at kilometre sixteen, fumaroles send hot gases and steam high into the air in the volcano’s final death throes before becoming irrevocably extinct. Ceboruco’s first recorded eruption was in 1542 but the huge blocks of lava near the summit date from a prolonged series of eruptions in the 1870’s.
Highway 15 cuts through Ceboruco’s lava field a few kilometres after the Jala junction. For those not wishing to brave the cobblestone road up to the volcano, this is a good place to stretch the legs and marvel at the inhospitable, black lava blocks which were spewed out more than a hundred years ago.
Enjoy!
Tony
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