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Ecuador

Cotopaxi

Cotopaxi is one of the provinces of . The capital is . The province contains the volcano, an intermittent volcano with a height of 19,347 feet.
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  • Type: State with 409,000 residents
  • Description: province of Ecuador
  • Also known as: “Cotopaxi Province”, “EC-X”, and “Provincia de León”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Laguna Quilotoa.

Photo: simonmatzinger, CC BY 2.0.
is the highlight of the , 14 km north of . It's a volcanic crater lake, sitting at an elevation of 3,900 m, with stunning views of both the lake and the mountain ranges surrounding it.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chugchilán.

Chugchilan is a small Andean village in the county of Sigchos, Provincia . Because it is more or less in the center of the , it is a great location for hiking and/or horseback riding in the high Andes - with elevations ranging from 8,500 feet to 12,800 feet.

Cotopaxi

Latitude
-0.8269° or 0° 49′ 37″ south
Longitude
-78.8938° or 78° 53′ 38″ west
Population
409,000
Elevation
3,887 metres (12,753 feet)
Open location code
67F354F4+7F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 470287322
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3658766
Wiki­data ID
Q241140
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Cotopaxi” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة كوتوباكسي”
  • Armenian: “Կոտոպախի”
  • Basque: “Cotopaxi probintzia”
  • Basque: “Cotopaxi”
  • Belarusian: “Катапаксі”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Катапаксі”
  • Bengali: “কটোপাক্সি প্রদেশ”
  • Bulgarian: “Котопакси”
  • Catalan: “Província de Cotopaxi”
  • Cebuano: “Provincia de Cotopaxi”
  • Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Cotopaxi”
  • Chinese: “Cotopaxi Séng”
  • Chinese: “科托帕希省”
  • Danish: “Cotopaxi Province”
  • Dutch: “Cotopaxi”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Cotopaxi”
  • Finnish: “Cotopaxi”
  • French: “Cotopaxi”
  • French: “Province de Cotopaxi”
  • Galician: “Provincia de Cotopaxi”
  • Georgian: “კოტოპახის პროვინცია”
  • German: “Cotopaxi”
  • German: “EC-X”
  • German: “Provinz Cotopaxi”
  • Greek: “Επαρχία Κοτοπάξι”
  • Gujarati: “કોટોપેક્સિ પ્રાંત”
  • Hindi: “कोटोपैक्सी प्रांत”
  • Hungarian: “Cotopaxi tartomány”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Cotopaxi”
  • Italian: “provincia del Cotopaxi”
  • Italian: “Provincia del Cotopaxi”
  • Japanese: “コトパクシ州”
  • Japanese: “コトパクシ県”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊಟೊಪಾಕ್ಸಿ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
  • Korean: “코토팍시주”
  • Ladino: “Cotopaxi”
  • Latvian: “Kotopaksi province”
  • Lithuanian: “Kotopaksio provincija”
  • Malay: “Pentadbiran Cotopaxi”
  • Marathi: “कोत्पॅक्सिको प्रांत”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cotopaxi Séng”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cotopaxi (Prowins)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cotopaxi”
  • Northern Sami: “Cotopaxi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cotopaxi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Provinsen Cotopaxi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cotopaxiprovinsen”
  • Norwegian: “Cotopaxi”
  • Persian: “استان کوتوپاکسی”
  • Polish: “Cotopaxi”
  • Polish: “Prowincja Cotopaxi”
  • Portuguese: “Cotopaxi”
  • Portuguese: “Província de Cotopaxi”
  • Quechua: “Kutupaksi marka”
  • Quechua: “Qutuphaqsi marka”
  • Russian: “Котопакси”
  • Russian: “Котопахи”
  • Scots: “Cotopaxi Province”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cotopaxi (provincija)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cotopaxi”
  • Sinhala: “කොටොපක්සි පළාත, ඉක්වදෝරය”
  • Sinhala: “කොටොපක්සි පළාත”
  • Slovenian: “Provinca Cotopaxi”
  • Spanish: “Cotopaxi”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Cotopaxi”
  • Swedish: “Cotopaxi”
  • Tamil: “கோடோபாக்சி மாகாணம்”
  • Telugu: “కోటోపాక్సి ప్రావిన్స్”
  • Telugu: “కోటోపాక్సి రాష్ట్రభాగం”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดโกโตปักซิ”
  • Turkish: “Cotopaxi Province”
  • Turkish: “Cotopaxi”
  • Ukrainian: “Котопахі”
  • Urdu: “کوتوپازی صوبہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Cotopaxi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cotopaxi”
  • Welsh: “Talaith Cotopaxi”
  • Western Armenian: “Քոթոփախի”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ کوتوپاکسی”
  • Wu Chinese: “科托帕希省”

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