Irazu

[ee-rah-soo]

noun

1. Mount, a volcano in central Costa Rica. 11,200 feet (3,414 meters).

Example Sentences

The country’s first satellite, Irazú, was launched with help from a SpaceX rocket in 2018 to monitor its tropical forests and climate change.

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“This was our work. We have grown and cared for them since they were seeds,” said Cristian Quiros, a worker at the Flores y Verdes del Irazu farm in the central city of Cartago.

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Last year, Urbina had to modify the race route to avoid La Ruta’s usual grueling trip up and over the Irazú and Turrialba volcanoes, a path covered with ash and riddled with sharp pumice.

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Terry Plank, a geochemist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, and a former postdoctoral researcher in her lab, Philipp Ruprecht, wanted to understand the origin of magma in a famous eruption of the Irazù volcano in Costa Rica that lasted from 1963 to 1965.

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