Located in the north of the State, right between the states of Colima and Jalisco.

This site can be acceded by particular or rented automobile, as well as guided by operators or tourist guides. This last one is the best form to make the route, since they do a detailed explanation of the trip

In order to arrive to the Fire Volcano it is necessary to take the Comala – Suchitlán road. When arriving to the town of the Becerrera, you must turn right to take the road to La Maríalagoon, and continue until arriving to the town of La Yerbabuena, where you’ll see a detent of soldiers of the National Army, and they will evaluate the possibility of allowing the passage beyond these limits. In positive case, you will turn to the right to go by a breach way, to the environs of the Volcano of Colima National Park, where is the Fire Volcano.

Schedules

It can be visited throughout the year. You will only have to be aware of the volcanic activity of the day of your visit. It is recommendable to ask the authorities (Offices of Civil Defence) if it is possible to make visits with characteristics of tourist route

No other image evokes in so immediate way the colimense landscape as the Volcano, Colima Volcano, The Colima Volcano, Fire Volcano, or whatever it is called. Home of the mythical God of the fire, the old Huehuetéotl, who with a smoky censer on his head dominates the territory on his feet

With a height of 3.960 meters, it is considered as one of the most active Volcanos of México. The north face of the Fire Volcano is oriented towards Jalisco and to its twin, the Snow Volcano. The route of the volcano, therefore, is a route by its south slope, where the ancestral colimenses settled with challenging disrespect and their conquerors found the best climate and territories of culture. It is the region of the ranches, where the culture of the Colimote ranchers was forged, distinguished by having a mixture of the northern tenacity and the coastal eagerness and joy

Together with the Nevado de Colima (Snow Volcano) (4.330m), is part of a volcanic zone located in the Mexican Neovolcanic Belt or Axis. Throughout the last 500 years the Fire Volcano of Colima has had a frequency of activity of explosive type with a number that surpasses the 30 eruptions, standing out the ones from 1585, 1606, 1622, 1690, 1818, 1869, 1890, 1903, 1913, and 1999, just to mention some. Additionally, the activity of smaller degree is due to consider, which demonstrates us that throughout the last centuries this volcano has increased its eruptive process

The evident manifestations that the Fire Volcano of Colima has demonstrated during its periods of activity, are the eruptions of magmatic material expelled in different forms, presenting in addition other pre-eruptive manifestations that give us the possibility to anticipate a great eruption. One of the recent ones, the one of 1913, produced a crater of approximately 500 meters of depth that has filled slowly with lava and has exceeded the level of the lips of the crater, forming a dome that obstructs the main chimney of the volcano, becoming a cork that prevents the exit of the material from the interior. In 1991, an episode of growth of lava dome in blocks, generated a partial collapse of its body, producing landslides of incandescent material and later lahars. The recent eruption of effusive character (November 20, 1998), demonstrated that the internal activity of the volcano keeps the behavior of previous centuries in which the eruptive cycle finished with a change in the activity style, culminating in an eruption of Subpliniana to Pliniana type, with the generation of an eruptive column greater to 10 km and producing ash rain in a radius greater to 30 km, generating in addition, pyroclastic flows by the slopes in a radius up to 15 km, just as it happened in 1818 and 1913.

The explotions also take place in the dome. Between the most recent we can mention the one in 1987, the one of July 21, 1994, that left a brief crater in the surface of the dome, formed in 1991, and reached a diameter of 130 meters and 50 meters of depth, and produced a light ash rain towards the west. On February 10, 1999 a new explosive event appeared on the top of the volcano, same that repeated with smaller intensity on February 18, and May 10, 1999. On July 17, 1999 a new and violent explosion took place and threw a great amount of incandescent material by the sides of the volcano and raised a column of ash over 8 Km

At present there are, in the states of Colima and Jalisco, a several populations vulnerable to a possible eruption. The deposit of pyroclastic flows, pumice rain of and ashes, as well as mud flows or lahars, could affect in first instance the populations of La Yerbabuena (The Mint), La Becerrera, Barranca del Agua (Ravine of the Water), Rancho El Jabalí (Wild boar Farm), Suchitlán, San Antonio and Rancho la Joya (Jewel), in the State of Colima, besides Juan Barragán, Agostadero, Los Machos, El Borobollón, Durazno, San Marcos, Tonila, Cofradía de Tonila, Causentla, El Fresnal, Atenguillo, Saucillo, El Embudo and El Chayán, in the State of Jalisco, and second term, other populations of both States, a little far awas as Quesería, Ciudad Guzmán, Tuxpan, the City of Colima, Villa de Álvarez, Comala and Cuauhtémoc, to mention some. The Fire Volcano of Colima, presents other manifestations that allow us to anticipate the possibility of an eruption. In this respect, the knowledge of the seismic activity is very important, for which we have the support of the Sound-ranging Seismological Network of the State of Colima (RESCO). Good part of the monitoring of the activity of the Fire Volcano is carried out by the personnel of the Volcano Observatory of the University of Colima, supported by the State System of Civil Defence.

Situado al norte del Estado, justo entre los estados de Colima y Jalisco.

A este sitio puede accesarse en automóvil particular o rentado, así como también guiado por operadores o guías de turistas, esta última es la mejor forma de realizar este recorrido, ya que ellos realizan una explicación detallada del viaje.

Para llegar al Volcán de Fuego hay que tomar la carretera Comala - Suchitlán. Al llegar al poblado de la Becerrera se toma un desvío a la derecha para tomar el camino a la laguna La María y se continúa derecho hasta llegar al poblado de la Yerbabuena donde existe un retén de soldados del Ejército Nacional y ellos evaluarán la posibilidad de permitir el paso más allá de estos límites. En caso positivo, se desviará a la derecha para dirigirse por un camino de brecha, a los alrededores del Parque Nacional Volcán de Colima, donde se encuentra el Volcán de Fuego.

Para solicitar informes de operadores especializados que ofrecen recorridos al volcán, se puede llamar a Tierra Verde Expeditions, al Tel. 01 312 308 1007, o bien comunicarse a las oficinas de la Secretaría de Turismo al tel. 01 312 316 2021.