The masaya volcano national park comprises of an area of 54 km2 and includes two volcanoesand fiver craters the volcanoes have erupted several times in history and were feared by boththe indigenous people and the spanish conquerors the spanish baptized the active volcano laboca del infierno or the mouth of hell they planted a cross la cruz de bobadilla namedafter father francisco bobadilla on the crater lip in the 16th century in order to exorcise the devil