Parícutin Volcano

Parícutin Volcano, in Mexico's Michoacán state, is one of nature's most astonishing spectacles—a volcano born in a farmer's field in 1943. Witnessed from its first explosive eruption, it grew 424 meters (1,391 feet) in just nine years, burying nearby villages under lava and ash. Now dormant, its cinder-cone silhouette and hardened lava fields offer a surreal landscape. Unique for being the first volcano studied from birth to extinction, Parícutin provides invaluable geological insights. Its dramatic formation and rapid evolution earned it a place among the world's most extraordinary natural wonders.