Nevado del Ruiz, also known as La Mesa de Herveo is a volcano on the border of the departments of Caldas and Tolima in Colombia, being the highest point of both. It is located about 130 km west of the
The volcano's summit and upper flanks are covered by several glaciers that appear as a white mass surrounding the Arenas crater.
The top of the 11,000 year-old ash fall deposits interstratified with paleosols overlying a channelized debris flow and a sequence of wet surges.
Armero was located in the center of this photograph, taken late November 1985.
Nevado del Ruiz as seen from Manizales, 2006
Omayra Sánchez Garzón was a Colombian girl trapped and killed by a landslide when she was 13 years old.
Nevado del Ruiz
…fourth-deadliest volcanic eruption in recorded history. It is also the deadliest known lahar, and Colombia's worst natural disaster. A young girl named Omayra Sánchez became a worldwide symbol of the disaster after images of her trapped under the debris of her former home, after the eruption made the news worldwide…
Frank Fournier's photograph of Sánchez