''In clay we are made" is a story based on real events created by Isabel Allende. This is a historic event of wich marked the lives of many people forever in a town called "Armero" in Colombia. To begin with, 'Il tell you a brief description of Armero.
Armero is a municipality in the department of Tolima, Colombia, located at 352 meters above sea level. I t is characterized as the city where the greatest tragedy in history by the eruption of a volcano named Nevado Del RuÃz in 1985. Before the tragedy, 31 000 people living Armero. Nevado Del RuÃz, also known as Table Herveo, located to just under 50 Km of Armero It's a stratovolcano composed of many layers of lava alternating with hardened volcanic ash and pyroclast. In general, their eruptions are plinian type, giving rise to rapid currents of hot gas and rock known as pyroclastic flows. Of past eruptions of the same, the eruption of 1985 is the second largest recorded eruption since 1595.
It was sad for many people the lack of prevention have to die on that night of tragedy. A similar story occurred in Puerto Rico that year. It's called ''El Derrumbe de Mameyes''. The difference is that could haved been caused by torrential rains. Two tragedies occurred one month after the other. To has to be conclude, was amazing how two major tragedies occurred the same year and one month after.
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