El Rodeo is a town in the

Escuintla Department Escuintla () is one of the 22 departments of Guatemala. The capital of the department is the city of Escuintla. Escuintla covers an area of 4,384 km2 and is situated in the coastal lowland region, directly south of Guatemala City, and bord ...

Guatemala Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically b ...

, about 35 kilometers southwest of

Guatemala City Guatemala City (, also known colloquially by the nickname Guate), is the Capital city, national capital and largest city of the Guatemala, Republic of Guatemala. It is also the Municipalities of Guatemala, municipal capital of the Guatemala Depa ...

. It is located at an altitude of above sea level on the southern slopes of an active

volcano A volcano is commonly defined as a vent or fissure in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most oft ...

called

Volcán de Fuego Volcán de Fuego (; Spanish for "Volcano of Fire", often shortened to Fuego) or Chi Q'aq' ( Kaqchikel for "where the fire is") is an active stratovolcano in Guatemala, on the borders of Chimaltenango, Escuintla and Sacatepéquez departments. ...

— Spanish for ''Volcano of Fire''.

History

The town, with a population estimated at 14,125Guatemala 2002 Census
(.zip file) was reported to have been buried by volcanic material following the 2018 Volcán de Fuego eruption on 3 June 2018.At least 33 dead in Guatemala as volcano erupts, burying an entire village
''The Washington Post''. Susan Hogan and Avi Selk. June 4, 2018. The town was in the early process of evacuation when the eruption happened. Other nearby towns also covered by the superheated

pyroclastic flow A pyroclastic flow (also known as a pyroclastic density current or a pyroclastic cloud) is a fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter (collectively known as tephra) that flows along the ground away from a volcano at average speeds of b ...

include San Miguel Los Lotes, and

Alotenango Alotenango (''Alo-tenamitl-co''; translation "in the wall of the parrots") (variation: Atchalan) is a town and municipality in the Guatemalan department of Sacatepéquez. According to the 2018 census, the town has a population of 23,358. The mu ...

. At least 109 people were confirmed dead, and about 192 people are reported missing.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:El Rodeo, Escuintla Escuintla Department Populated places in the Escuintla Department