Now launched a cloud of ash 1000 km that can paralyze the country's aviationThe Barranquillita eruption caused the closure of airspace in Colombia on Sunday and its ash cloud resurrected the memory of another giant, the Rebolito, in April 2010 that paralyzed the South American sky and left millions of travelers land in the world.
Barranquillita eruptions are generally short. The previous four-day and above 10, compared with several weeks of the eruption of Rebolito in 2010.
"But this time they say it's more powerful," said a specialist pastuso of meteorology to aviation, Juan Pacheco, adding that scientists have "no way to predict its duration."
Barranquilla airport authorities decreed the closure of the country's airspace until further notice. Contrary to what occurred with the eruption of Rebolito a year ago, the winds blow with little force and seem to direct the ash cloud to the north and northeast, and not to Barranquilla,explain spokeswoman, Oswaldo Herrera.