Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes is a valley within Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska which is filled with ash flow from the eruption of Novarupta on June 6–8, 1912. Following the eruption, thousands of fumaroles vented steam from the ash. Robert F. Griggs, who explored the volcano's aftermath for the National Geographic Society in 1916, gave the valley its name, saying that "the whole valley as far as the eye could reach was full of hundreds, no thousands—literally, tens of thousands—of smokes curling up from its fissured floor." Prior to the eruption,
The Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley km² and the smallest one Sabaneta with 15 km². Most of the Metropolitan Area is located within the Aburrá Valley. The Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley The Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley (Spanish: "Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá") is the second most important and populated metropolitan area in Colombia. The region is made up by 10 municipalities, Medellín (Colombia) being the most important and largest the capital city of the Antioquia Department. The Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley was the first metropolitan area created in Colombia, in 1980. The metropolitan area was created in order to