Laguna Quilotoa at 3,518 meters (11,542 ft) above sea level, Cotopaxi Province, Equador.

            Activities include a four to five-hour hike around the caldera (whose diameter is just over 3 km). The caldera rim is highly irregular and reaches its maximum elevations (3,885 meters to the N, 3894 meters to the NW and 3,915 meters to the SE) at three lava domes. The 10 km hike is sandy and steep in places and can be quite taxing, particularly if there is fog.

It's a half-hour hike down from the viewpoint (and 1-2 hour hike back up the 280-meter vertical ascent), and very basic lodging down in its bowl. Camping is permitted at the bottom of the crater, but there is no potable water.

The lake surface is located at 3,500 meters above sea level. The total volume of water stored in Lake Quilotoa is 0.35 km3. According to local inhabitants, the lake level has been slowly declining over the last 10 years. Travertine deposits occur along the shore up to 10 m above the lake level (in the year 2000).

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Taken in: Ecuador / Provincia de Cotopaxi / Chugchillan / Cuizán (show map)

Taken on: December 10, 2019

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