volcano Atacazo
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Atacazo is a volcano of the Western Cordillera located 25 kilometers southwest of Quito, Ecuador. Atacazo is a stratovolcano formed by the action of a Late-Pleistocene to Holocene caldera. The last eruption of the Atacazo was nearly 2300 years ago.
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Vinony's link graph records 15 inbound references to volcano Atacazo, and connects out to Ecuador, Andes and Quito.
The entry is geolocated on the map in mountain_region, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Four-thousanders of the Andes, Holocene calderas and Holocene stratovolcanoes.
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Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Atacazo
- Mountain.photo
- Atacazo volcano.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Atacazo viewed from the other side
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 4463
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 1180
- Mountain.location
- Ecuador
- Mountain.range
- Andes
- Mountain.map
- Ecuador
- Mountain.relief
- 1
- Mountain.map_size
- 250
- Mountain.label_position
- right
- Mountain.type
- Stratovolcano
- Mountain.last_eruption
- 320 BCE ± 16 years
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Wikidata facts
- Elevation
- 4463
- Image
- Atacazo volcano.jpg
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- Commons category
- Atacazo
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Aerial tragedy
- See also
- References
Atacazo is a volcano of the Western Cordillera located 25 kilometers southwest of Quito, Ecuador. Atacazo is a stratovolcano formed by the action of a Late-Pleistocene to Holocene caldera. The last eruption of the Atacazo was nearly 2300 years ago.
== Aerial tragedy == On November 7, 1960 a Fairchild F-27 turboprop passenger plane, operated by the now-defunct national airline AREA Ecuador, struck the Atacazo in bad weather during its approach to the newly-inaugurated Mariscal Sucre International Airport after a flight from Simón Bolívar International Airport, in Guayaquil. The crash, south of Quito and 150 meters to the summit of the Atacazo, killed all the 37 occupants of the plane. At the time, it was the worst aerial crash in the history of Ecuador, the first and worst fatal loss of an F-27 passenger plane, and the first accident involving the then-recently-opened Quito airport.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “volcano Atacazo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations