MOTHS OK PAHICTJTIN VOLCANO 
January 1946 
Caledonia Gutierrez 
- Three years ago my village existed tranquilly, without any warning of the 
volcano that exists today. Three years ago all parts of this region were 
beautiful, with fruit trees in the villa ge, green pastures, beautiful 
fields that demonstrated the riches of the area, with cattle and sheep and 
droves of horses and other animals that grazed in the rich fields of the 
region. Ifow there remains for me only a remembrance and a pride to have 
known it as it existed three years ago and to note the changes that I ob- 
serve with the eruption of this volcano as it continues its activity. 
The volcano continues to fling out incandescent rocks and scoria and fre- 
quently sand and ashes. At the same time the lava continues covering more 
fields 3 kilometers northwest of the volcano, almost as far as the lands 
of Euirambosta. With the deep heavy noises of the crater, one can see 
the stones that are forceably hurled out and fall on all the flanks of the 
cone. The greater part of the scoria fall back into the crater. 
A little after one o’clock in the morning the noises cease. Some vapors 
continue to rise without any force, passing first to the northeast and 
then to the west. The column continues circulating from east to west, 
from north to south; the ashes do no damage but when the vapors are dense 
the shadow is cold. 
Only the noises continue, frequently very deep, like regular thunder, with 
the white vapors like a veil. In the night one sees the red reflection 
of the light and the lava which illuminates the vapors from the crater. 
This is due to the activity of the vent that lies to the southwest of the 
cone, with its flows to the northwest. 
