Cotopaxi
Parque Nacional Cotopaxi is a national park in the central Andes of Ecuador about 50 km southeast of central Quito. It is a popular hiking destination which is known for the active Cotopaxi and the dormant Rumiñahui volcanoes.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: M Blissett, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 5,896 metres
- Description: Highest active volcano in the world
- Also known as: “Cerro Cotopaxi”, “Cotopaxi volcano”, and “Mount Cotopaxi”
Cotopaxi
- Categories: mountain, stratovolcano, and landform
- Location: Andean Highlands, Ecuador, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-0.6806° or 0° 40′ 50″ southLongitude
-78.4378° or 78° 26′ 16″ westElevation
5,896 metres (19,344 feet)Open location code
67F38H96+QVOpenStreetMap ID
node 249418469OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Cotopaxi” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Kotopaksi”
- Arabic: “كوتوباكسي”
- Armenian: “Կոտոպախի”
- Asturian: “Volcán Cotopaxi”
- Basque: “Cotopaxi”
- Belarusian: “Вулкан Катапахі”
- Belarusian: “Катапаксі”
- Belarusian: “Катапахі”
- Bosnian: “Cotopaxi”
- Bulgarian: “Котопакси”
- Catalan: “Cotopaxi”
- Catalan: “volcà Cotopaxi”
- Cebuano: “Cotopaxi (bolkan)”
- Cebuano: “Cotopaxi”
- Central Bikol: “Cotopaxi”
- Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Cotopaxi”
- Chinese: “科托帕希峰”
- Chinese: “科托帕希火山”
- Croatian: “Cotopaxi”
- Czech: “Cotopaxi”
- Danish: “Cotopaxi”
- Dutch: “Cotopaxi”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كوتوباكسى”
- Esperanto: “Kotopaksi”
- Estonian: “Cotopaxi”
- Finnish: “Cotopaxi”
- French: “Cotopaxi”
- Galician: “Volcan Cotopaxi”
- Galician: “Volcán Cotopaxi”
- Georgian: “კოტოპახი”
- German: “Cotopaxi”
- Greek: “Κοτοπάξι”
- Hebrew: “קוטופקחי”
- Hebrew: “קוטופקסי”
- Hindi: “कोटोपैक्सी”
- Hungarian: “Cotopaxi”
- Indonesian: “Cotopaxi”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Cotopaxi”
- Italian: “Cotopaxi”
- Japanese: “コトパクシ山”
- Javanese: “Cotopaxi”
- Javanese: “Gunung Cotopaxi”
- Korean: “코토팍시 산”
- Korean: “코토팍시산”
- Ladin: “Cotopaxi volcano”
- Lithuanian: “Cotopaxio ugnikalnis”
- Lithuanian: “Kotopachis”
- Lithuanian: “Kotopaksis”
- Macedonian: “Котопакси”
- Mazanderani: “کوتوپاکسي”
- Mazanderani: “کوتوپاکسی”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cotopaxi”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cotopaxi”
- Norwegian: “Cotopaxi”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Cotopaxi”
- Persian: “آتشفشان کوتوپاکسی”
- Persian: “اتشفشان کوتوپاکسی”
- Persian: “کوتوپاکسی”
- Polish: “Cotopaxi”
- Portuguese: “Cotopaxi”
- Portuguese: “Vulcão Cotopaxi”
- Quechua: “Cotopaxi”
- Quechua: “Kutupaksi”
- Quechua: “Qutupaqsi”
- Quechua: “Qutuphaqsi”
- Romanian: “Cotopaxi”
- Russian: “Котопакси”
- Russian: “Котопахи”
- Serbian: “Kotopaksi”
- Serbian: “Котопакси”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cotopaxi”
- Slovak: “Cotopaxi”
- Slovenian: “Cotopaxi”
- Spanish: “Cotopaxi”
- Spanish: “Volcan Cotopaxi”
- Spanish: “Volcán Cotopaxi”
- Swahili: “Cotopaxi”
- Swedish: “Cotopaxi”
- Thai: “โกโตปักซี”
- Thai: “ภูเขาไฟโกโตปักซี”
- Turkish: “Cotopaksi”
- Turkish: “Cotopaxi dağı”
- Turkish: “Cotopaxi”
- Ukrainian: “Котопаксі”
- Ukrainian: “Котопахі”
- Uzbek: “Kotopaxi”
- Venetian: “Cotopaxi”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cotopaxi”
- Wu Chinese: “科托帕希火山”
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