South America
Ecuador
Morona-Santiago Province

Sangay

Sangay is an active stratovolcano in central . It exhibits mostly strombolian activity. Geologically, Sangay marks the southern boundary of the Northern Volcanic Zone, and its position straddling two major pieces of crust accounts for its high level of activity.
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  • Type: Volcano with an elevation of 5,230 metres
  • Description: active stratovolcano in central Ecuador
  • Also known as: “Sangay volcano”

Sangay

Latitude
-2.00494° or 2° 0′ 18″ south
Longitude
-78.34168° or 78° 20′ 30″ west
Elevation
5,230 metres (17,159 feet)
Open location code
6793XMW5+28
Open­Street­Map ID
node 249414631
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Geo­Names ID
3651863
Wiki­data ID
Q14052
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Satellite Map

Discover Sangay from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Venetian—“Sangay” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سانغاي”
  • Armenian: “Սանգայ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sanqay vulkanı”
  • Basque: “Sangay”
  • Belarusian: “Вулкан Сангай”
  • Belarusian: “Сангай”
  • Catalan: “Sangay”
  • Catalan: “volcà Sangay”
  • Cebuano: “Sangay”
  • Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Sangay”
  • Chinese: “桑蓋火山”
  • Czech: “Sangay”
  • Dutch: “Sangay”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سانجاى”
  • Esperanto: “Sangai”
  • Estonian: “Sangay”
  • French: “Sangay”
  • Galician: “Sangay”
  • Galician: “Volcan Sangay”
  • Galician: “Volcán Sangay”
  • German: “Sangay”
  • Hindi: “सैंगे”
  • Hungarian: “Sangay”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Sangay”
  • Italian: “Sangay”
  • Japanese: “サンガイ山”
  • Javanese: “Gunung Sangay”
  • Korean: “상가이 산”
  • Korean: “상가이산”
  • Ladin: “Sangay volcano”
  • Lithuanian: “Sangajus”
  • Minangkabau: “Gunuang Sangay”
  • Minangkabau: “Gunung Sangay”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sangay”
  • Polish: “Sangay”
  • Portuguese: “Sangay”
  • Portuguese: “Vulcão Sangay”
  • Quechua: “Sankay”
  • Russian: “Сангай”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sangay (vulkan)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sangay”
  • Slovak: “Sangay”
  • Spanish: “Sangay”
  • Spanish: “Volcan Sangay”
  • Spanish: “Volcán Sangay”
  • Sundanese: “Gunung Sangay”
  • Swahili: “Sangay”
  • Swedish: “Sangay”
  • Tatar: “Сангай вулканы”
  • Ukrainian: “Санґай”
  • Venetian: “Sangay”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sangay”. Photo: Dabit100, CC BY-SA 4.0.