El Altar
El Altar or Capac Urcu is an extinct volcano on the western side of Sangay National Park in Ecuador, 170 km south of Quito, with a highest point of 5,319 m.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dabit100, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 5,319 metres
- Description: volcano in Ecuador
- Also known as: “Altar”, “Altar, Ecuador”, “Cerro Altar”, “El altar”, and “El Altar volcano”
El Altar
- Categories: mountain, stratovolcano, and landform
- Location: Ecuador, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-1.67196° or 1° 40′ 19″ southLongitude
-78.41017° or 78° 24′ 37″ westElevation
5,319 metres (17,451 feet)Open location code
67C38HHQ+6WOpenStreetMap ID
node 3255108269OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
Discover El Altar from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Basque to Venetian—“El Altar” goes by many names.
- Basque: “El Altar”
- Catalan: “Altar”
- Catalan: “El altar”
- Catalan: “El Altar”
- Catalan: “Volcà El Altar”
- Cebuano: “Altar (bolkan)”
- Cebuano: “Altar”
- Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “El Altar”
- Chinese: “埃爾阿爾塔火山”
- Czech: “Capac Urcu”
- Czech: “El Altar”
- Dutch: “El Altar”
- Esperanto: “El Altar”
- French: “Altar”
- French: “El altar”
- French: “El Altar”
- Galician: “Altar”
- Galician: “El altar”
- Galician: “El Altar”
- Galician: “Volcan El Altar”
- Galician: “Volcán El Altar”
- Georgian: “ელ-ალტარი”
- German: “El Altar”
- Hungarian: “El Altar”
- Italian: “El Altar”
- Japanese: “アルタール山”
- Japanese: “エル・アルタール”
- Ladin: “El Altar volcano”
- Lithuanian: “El Altaras”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “El Altar”
- Norwegian: “El Altar”
- Polish: “El Altar”
- Portuguese: “Altar”
- Portuguese: “El altar”
- Portuguese: “El Altar”
- Portuguese: “Vulcão El Altar”
- Quechua: “Capac urcu”
- Quechua: “Capac Urcu”
- Quechua: “El Altar”
- Quechua: “Kapak urku”
- Quechua: “Kapak Urku”
- Quechua: “Obispo urqu”
- Quechua: “Qhapaq urqu”
- Quechua: “Qhapaq Urqu”
- Russian: “Алтар (вулкан)”
- Russian: “Алтар”
- Slovak: “El Altar”
- Spanish: “Altar (volcan)”
- Spanish: “Altar (volcán)”
- Spanish: “El altar”
- Spanish: “El Altar”
- Spanish: “Volcan El Altar”
- Spanish: “Volcán El Altar”
- Swahili: “El Altar”
- Swedish: “Altar”
- Swedish: “El Altar”
- Tatar: “Алтар вулканы”
- Ukrainian: “Алтар”
- Venetian: “El Altar”
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