# Cotacachi

- **Country:** Ecuador
- **Coordinates:** 0.360833, -78.349167
- **Range:** Andes
- **Listing:** Ultra
- **Location:** Ecuador
- **Elevation M:** 4944
- **First Ascent:** 24 April 1880 by Edward Whymper, Jean-Antoine Carrel and Louis Carrel
- **Prominence M:** 1837

Cotacachi is a dormant volcano in the Western Cordillera of the northern Ecuadorian Andes, in the west of Imbabura Province, above the city of Cotacachi. It has a summit elevation of above sea level and its highest elevations are capped with snow.

![Photo of Cotacachi](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Cotacachi_volcano.JPG)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotacachi_Volcano (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)