{"id":22956,"date":"2024-05-01T12:46:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T07:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22956"},"modified":"2025-04-06T23:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T17:43:10","slug":"la-cumbre-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/la-cumbre-volcano\/","title":{"rendered":"La Cumbre volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About La Cumbre volcano:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is <strong>located on Fernandina Island<\/strong> \u2013 the third largest island in the Gal\u00e1pagos Islands.<\/li>\n<li>It lies directly atop the mantle plume, or hotspot, that produced all of the Gal\u00e1pagos Island.<\/li>\n<li>It is located around 1,125 kilometres off <strong>mainland Ecuador<\/strong> and erupted for the first time since 2020<\/li>\n<li>The volcano <strong>has a large crater,<\/strong> or caldera, at its summit that harbors a permanent <strong>crater lake.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This lake attracts a wide variety of animals including tens of thousands of <strong>Gal\u00e1pagos land iguanas <\/strong>(Conolophus subcristatus) that lay their eggs in nests within the caldera.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts about Gal\u00e1pagos land iguana<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is one of three species of land iguana <strong>endemic to the Galapagos Islands<\/strong> (the others being the Santa Fe land iguana and the Galapagos pink land iguana).<\/li>\n<li>It is a very large <strong>species of lizard<\/strong> in the family Iguanidae. It is primarily an <strong>herbivore species.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This large cold-blooded reptile has a <strong>mutualistic relationship with finches<\/strong>, which can often be seen sitting on their backs, picking ticks from between their scales.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is active during the day, spending their time foraging or basking on rocks; at night they sleep in burrows.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>IUCN:<\/strong> Vulnerable<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a crater?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a bowl-shaped depression, or hollowed-out area, produced by the impact of a meteorite, volcanic activity, or an explosion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/science\/la-cumbre-volcano-continues-to-spew-lava-affecting-habitat-of-rare-land-iguanas-in-galapagos-islands-716430\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lava spewing from volcano on Gal\u00e1pagos Islands destroying habitat of rare land iguanas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Cumbre volcano is located on Fernandina Island \u2013 the third largest island in the Gal\u00e1pagos Islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}