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Zencapopoca Volcano, Mexico, 1999

"'We call the volcano Zencapopoca now. That's 'always smoking' in Nahuatl,' says a man in Cholula, using the Aztec language still spoken locally. The town's pre-Hispanic pyramid, crowned today by a church, may have been built in reverence to El Popo; its ancient name, Tlachihualtépetl, means 'man-made mountain.'"

—From "Popocatépetl," January 1999, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by Sarah Leen