The Highest Mountains in Ecuador – WorldAtlas, Cotopaxi – Wikipedia, Ecuador’s 10 Highest Mountains – TripSavvy, Chimborazo, mountain peak, central Ecuador, in the Cordillera Occidental of the Andes. Rising to 20,702 feet (6,310 metres), it is the highest peak of Ecuador and was long mistakenly thought to be the highest mountain of the Andes. An inactive volcano with many craters, it is heavily glaciated.
Cotopaxi, volcanic peak, in the Cordillera Central of the Andes, central Ecuador. Rising to 19,393 feet (5,911 metres), it is among the world’s highest volcanoes. Cotopaxi has an almost perfectly symmetrical cone, interrupted only by one minor cone—the Cabeza del Inca (“Inca’s Head”). The mountain has a long record of violent eruption. The largest historical eruptions took place in 1744, 1768, 1877, and 1904.
Alexander von Humboldt, Edward Whymper, Aimé Bonpland, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, Jean-Antoine Carrel, Cotopaxi, Aconcagua, Mount Everest, Huascarán, Ojos del Salado
