Atacazo
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.Photo: USGS, Public domain.
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 4,463 metres
- Description: volcano in Ecuador
- Also known as: “Cerro Atacaso”, “Cerro Atacazo”, and “volcano Atacazo”
Atacazo
- Categories: stratovolcano and landform
- Location: Cutuglahua, Mejía Canton, Pichincha, Ecuador, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-0.35352° or 0° 21′ 13″ southLongitude
-78.62151° or 78° 37′ 17″ westElevation
4,463 metres (14,642 feet)Open location code
67F3J9WH+H9OpenStreetMap ID
node 249407836OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Atacazo” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ատակազո”
- Basque: “Atacazo sumendia”
- Catalan: “Atacazo”
- Catalan: “volcà Atacazo”
- Cebuano: “Atacazo”
- Chinese: “阿塔卡索火山”
- Czech: “Atacazo”
- Dutch: “Atacazo”
- French: “Atacazo”
- Galician: “Atacazo”
- Galician: “Volcan Atacazo”
- Galician: “Volcán Atacazo”
- German: “Atacazo”
- Lithuanian: “Atakasa”
- Lithuanian: “Atakasas”
- Polish: “Atacazo”
- Portuguese: “Atacazo”
- Portuguese: “Vulcão Atacazo”
- Quechua: “Atacazo”
- Quechua: “Atakasu”
- Russian: “Атаказо”
- Slovak: “Atacazo”
- Spanish: “Atacazo”
- Spanish: “Volcan Atacazo”
- Spanish: “Volcán Atacazo”
- Swahili: “Atacazo”
- Swedish: “Atacazo”
- Ukrainian: “Атаказо”
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