Key facts
- Elevation
- 5,790 m (18,996 ft)
- Prominence
- 2,075 m (6,808 ft)
- Listing
- Ultra
- Location
- Pichincha , Ecuador
- Parent range
- Andes
- Mountain type
- Complex volcano
- Volcanic zone
- North Volcanic Zone
- Last eruption
- 1785 to 1786
- First ascent
- 1880 by Edward Whymper
- Easiest route
- rock/snow climb
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- stratovolcano
- Country
- Ecuador
- Located in
- Pichincha Province
- Continent
- Americas
- Elevation
- 5790
- Location
- Ecuador
- Image
- Volcan Cayambe.JPG
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- native label
- Cayambe
- time period
- Holocene
- Commons category
- Cayambe
- topographic prominence
- 2075
- mountain range
- Andes
- Commons gallery
- Cayambe Volcano (Ecuador)
- located in protected area
- Cayambe Coca National Park
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Encyclopedic overview
Cayambe or Volcán Cayambe is a volcano in Ecuador, in the Cordillera Central, a range of the Ecuadorian Andes. It is located in Pichincha Province, some 70 km (43 mi) northeast of Quito. It is the third-highest mountain in Ecuador, at an elevation of 5,790 m (18,996 ft) above sea level.
Cayambe, which has a permanent snow cap, is a Holocene compound volcano which last erupted in March 1786. At 4,690 metres (15,387 ft), its south slope is the highest point in the world crossed by the Equator, and the only point on the Equator with snow cover. The ice cap covers an area of about 22 km (8 mi) and there are glaciers on the eastern flank descending to about 4,400 m (14,400 ft), whereas those on the drier western flank reach about 4,700 m (15,400 ft). The volcano and most of its slopes are within the Cayambe Coca Ecological Reserve.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cayambe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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