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A major glacier-covered active stratovolcano (also known in Spanish as Nevado del Ruiz) located in the Cordillera Central of the Andes in west-central Colombia, rising to an elevation of approximately 5,321 meters (17,457 feet) and noted for its catastrophic 1985 eruption and lahar.

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