Daily Tour Ecuador

Cotopaxi National Park was founded on August 11th 1975. It is one of the most important protected areas in Ecuador. Also, it is the second place most visited by tourists.
It is located between the provinces of Cotopaxi, Napo, and Pichincha, 1.5 or 2 hours from Quito.  It has an extension of 33.393 hectares. The temperature is between 0º – 15ºC. It has an altitude of 5897meters at the top.

It is considerated like the highest active volcano in the world. In native language Cotopaxi means “Cuello de luna “/ Neck of the moon). The form of Cotopaxi Volcano is like a perfect cone. And, it is covered by glacier over the 4800meters.
The landscape of the park is volcanic, around it exist some “lahares”, depot of ash.

You might visit the Interpretation Center (Mariscal Sucre). After that, we are going to walk from the parking lot to the refuge (José Rivas) for approximately 40minutes (it depends on your fitness). For arriving to the glacier we have to walk for approximately 20minutes more. Then we come back to the parking lot, to take the bikes to go down hill until the Limpiopungo Lake.