Mojanda
Sign in to saveMojanda is an inactive stratovolcano of the Eastern Cordillera of the Andes in northern Ecuador. A summit caldera, which was produced by an explosive Plinian Eruption that marked the end of Mojanda activity 200,000 years ago, is occupied by three crater lakes: Karikucha (the largest), Yanakucha, and Warmikucha. Having received protected status in 2002, they are a popular tourist destination and are about 20 minutes taxi ride from the largely indigenous town of Otavalo.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Mojanda
- Mountain.photo
- Mojanda.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Caricocha in the Mojanda caldera. On the opposite side of lake, the páramo has been burned away to promote new growth for cattle grazing.
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 4,263
- Mountain.location
- Between Imbabura Province and Pichincha Province, Ecuador
- Mountain.range
- Andes
- Mountain.type
- Inactive stratovolcano
- Mountain.last_eruption
- Possible in the holocene
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- Elevation
- 4263
- Image
- Mojanda2.jpg
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- Mojanda
- topographic prominence
- 1051
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Mojanda is an inactive stratovolcano of the Eastern Cordillera of the Andes in northern Ecuador. A summit caldera, which was produced by an explosive Plinian Eruption that marked the end of Mojanda activity 200,000 years ago, is occupied by three crater lakes: Karikucha (the largest), Yanakucha, and Warmikucha. Having received protected status in 2002, they are a popular tourist destination and are about 20 minutes taxi ride from the largely indigenous town of Otavalo.
Mojanda is a complex of two volcanoes which were active simultaneously. The volcanic vents are only 3 km apart. The other volcano, which produced at least two Plinian Eruptions of its own, is known as Fuya Fuya. Fuya Fuya partially collapsed around 165,000 years ago, creating a large caldera to the west. A new volcanic cone and other lava domes subsequently extruded inside the caldera, probably during the Late PleistoceneThe youngest domes were not glaciated and are possibly from the Holocene.
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