Fuego
Noun
Meaning
a volcano in south central Guatemala
Source: WordNetPhrases with the word
Examples
(Dare I say) En fuego. (originally delivered as El fuego)
After Guatemala's Fuego volcano erupted on Sunday killing at least 62 people, here is a list of the most deadly volcanic eruptions over the last quarter century.
In 1615, Jacob le Maire and Willem Schouten 's rounding of Cape Horn proved that Tierra del Fuego was a relatively small island, while in 1642 Abel Tasman 's first pacific voyage proved that Australia was not part of the mythical southern continent.
Recent history (1940–present) seeAlso In 1945 a division of Chilean CORFO (Spanish acronym for Production Development Corporation) engaged in oil exploration made a breakthrough discovery of oil in northern Tierra del Fuego.
Chilean radar supplied the British with information on Argentine jet movements in Tierra del Fuego, from where the Argentine Air Force launched raids on targets in the Falklands.
In the Southern Hemisphere, all of Tierra del Fuego lies outside the polar region in Nordenskiöld's system, but part of the island (including Ushuaia, Argentina ) is reckoned as being within the Antarctic under Köppen's.