VOLCANES DE HONDURAS la Historia QUE muy POCOS CONOCEN

This is how I traveled through the Lake Yojoa volcanic field Honduras, like the rest of Central America, owes a significant portion of its geography to violent volcanic events. Vast parts of our territory have changed their original shape, and one of these areas has become a lake. A volcanic field where you may have passed very close to craters without even realizing it. The Lake Yojoa volcanic field in Honduras is an area of ​​cinder cones and active craters from the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs, responsible for the formation of the country's only natural volcanic lake. Located at 700 meters above sea level, it has at least nine craters, most notably Babilonia and El Hoyo, whose last eruption was approximately 8,000 years BC. Contrary to what was taught for decades in schools—that Honduras had no volcanoes—it has been proven that there are perhaps thousands of them throughout almost the entire country. However, finding craters is not easy, especially in easily accessible locations. Two enormous craters are located along the northern side of the paved road that connects La Guama with Peña Blanca. The larger one is Cerro Babilonia, with a diameter of one kilometer. A little to the east is a second crater with a diameter of approximately 500 meters. Before the lake existed, there was a large depression where the lake is now located. However, this depression was not confined, and it was lava that closed the basin, gradually filling the lake with water. The craters in the Peña Blanca area are easy to see. Lava flowed through them in all directions from the cones. The largest flow traveled north to the town of Río Lindo, where the Pulhapanzak Waterfall was formed.