Reporting from Altagracia, Nicaragua — On the road south from the international airport in Managua, Nicaragua swooshes by, unfurling in buzzing, humid green. Fields of swaying banana trees ...

Together, the two volcanoes form Ometepe, the largest island in Lake Nicaragua, Central America’s largest lake. While Maderas is dormant, Concepción is still known to unleash “ashy belches ...

Volcan Concepcion towers 5,280 feet up from Lake Nicaragua, Central America's largest lake. (The lake is also known as Lake Cocibolca, the cha-cha-line name I prefer: Co-ci-bol-ca — hey!).

Nicaragua's Concepcion volcano erupted on Friday, spewing gas and smoke almost 500 feet (150 metres) into the air and dumping ash on three nearby villages, but there were no immediate reports of ...

The island is made up of two volcanoes, Maderas and Concepción, rising up out of Lake Nicaragua and connected by a narrow isthmus. Looped around its twin peaks is Ometepe’s one road.

Lake Nicaragua is comparable in size to Lake Titicaca, the Andean body of water along the border of Peru and Bolivia. Even from atop one of Ometepe’s volcanoes, it’s hard to see land across ...

Nicaragua: A hike up the active volcano Concepcion. By Megan Kimble . Sept. 16, 2014 8:38 AM PT . ... When Nicaragua erupted in civil war in the ‘80s, Ometepe maintained its distance, ...