Ecuador’s capital is located high in the Andes, strewn across several hills at 2,850m above sea level and surrounded by ...

The Cotopaxi is one of the most active volcanoes in Ecuador. At 5,897 meters above sea level, it is the second-highest peak in the country and together with the Sangay and Reventador volcanoes ...

Ecuador's Cotopaxi volcano has been emitting a plume of gas and vapour which over the weekend reached a height of 1.8km (1.1 miles) above its crater. Ash from the volcano has fallen south of the ...

This epic adventure starts in Cotopaxi National Park before heading through the Avenue of Volcanoes onto Riobamba and Ecuador's beautiful cloud forest. The four-day journey finishes in Guayaquil ...

Visit Rangitoto Island volcano, Waitomo caves, the major geothermal areas and the Tongariro National Park. Explore Ecuador's stunning natural wonders, including the Avenue of Volcanoes and Cloud ...

“We declare a state of emergency due to the unusual activity of Cotopaxi” Correa said “God willing, everything will go well and the volcano will not erupt.” Ecuador's President Rafael ...

GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR, June 24--An eight-man film team, including four Harvard graduate and undergraduate students, took the first pictures of an erupting volcano in the Galapagos Islands early this ...

The Ring of Fire is home to 75% of the world's volcanoes and 90% of its earthquakes. 2 min read The Ring of Fire is a roughly 25,000-mile chain of volcanoes and seismically active sites that ...

The magma chamber is a collection of magma inside the Earth, below the volcano. The main vent is the main outlet for the magma to escape. Secondary vents are smaller outlets through which magma ...

There are many different kinds of volcanoes, ranging from the Hawaiian type, which produces gentle, effusive eruptions that tourists can observe from mere steps away, to the andesitic variety ...

What does this mean? We look at why volcanoes exist in the first place, and why some erupt when others don't. Volcanoes are formed when magma (liquid rock) trapped underneath the Earth’s crust ...

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