Vegetation-free MacKenney cone was constructed within a large 3 x 6 km crater. The eastern (right) and northern (top) rims are visible in this photo, and formed as a result of massive slope failure of an ancestral Pacaya edifice. Lava flows from MacKenney cone traveled to the west and south beyond the crater.

Aerial photograph by Instituto Geográfico Nacional, 1981.

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Keywords: stratovolcano | lava flow | crater

Pacaya