Quilotoa is a beautiful volcanic crater with a lagoon of green waters inside. The volcano is in the Cotopaxi Province and has a crater of approximately 3 kilometers in diameter and the lagoon is 375 meters below the Crater Viewpoint, with a calculated depth of up to 250 meters. Quilotoa continues to receive constant volcanic monitoring although its current activity is low, its waters owe their green color precisely to the minerals and gases expelled by the volcano; They are somewhat toxic and this has hindered the emergence of life within. In the volcano surroundings have settled some ancestral indigenous communities, now distributed in the picturesque towns of Zumbahua, Chucchilán, Tigua, Isinlivi and Sigchos.
Place | Elevation |
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Highest Summit | 3933m |
South Crater Viewpoint | 3882m |
Lagoon | 3508m |
Zumbahua | 3515m |
Sigchos | 2868m |