Laguna Cuicocha
Cuicocha is a 3 km wide caldera and crater lake at the foot of Cotacachi Volcano in the Cordillera Occidental of the Ecuadorian Andes. Its name comes from the Kichwa indigenous language and means "Lago del Cuy" or Guinea Pig Lake in English.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Opening hours: 8:00 AM—8:00 AM and 6:00 PM—6:00 PM
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: lake in Ecuador
- Also known as: “Cuicocha”, “Cuicocha Crater Lake”, “Cuicocha Lake”, “La Cuicocha”, and “Laguna de Cuicocha”
- Address: Via a Intag
Laguna Cuicocha
- Categories: volcano, volcanic crater lake, and tourism
- Location: Imbabura, Andean Highlands, Ecuador, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
0.2959° or 0° 17′ 45″ northLongitude
-78.3599° or 78° 21′ 36″ westElevation
3,059 metres (10,036 feet)Open location code
67G37JWR+92OpenStreetMap ID
node 4381797590OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Yue Chinese—“Laguna Cuicocha” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Cuicocha”
- Cebuano: “Laguna de Cuicocha”
- Chinese: “古伊科查”
- Chinese: “繪哥查”
- Czech: “Cuicocha”
- Dutch: “Cuicocha”
- French: “Cuicocha”
- French: “Lagune de Cuicocha”
- German: “Cuicocha”
- Japanese: “クイコチャ湖”
- Lithuanian: “Kuikoča”
- Quechua: “Cuicocha”
- Quechua: “K’uychiqucha”
- Quechua: “Kuwikucha”
- Quechua: “Kuychikucha”
- Quechua: “Kuychiqucha”
- Quechua: “Kuykucha”
- Quechua: “Quwiqucha”
- Russian: “Куикоча”
- Slovak: “Cuicocha”
- Spanish: “Cuicocha”
- Swedish: “Laguna de Cuicocha”
- Ukrainian: “Куїкоча”
- Ukrainian: “Куйкоча”
- Yue Chinese: “繪哥查”
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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 “Laguna Cuicocha”. Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.