Ecuador topographic maps
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Baños
Ecuador > Tungurahua > Baños > Baños de Agua Santa
Baños is located at an elevation of 1,820 metres (5,971 feet) on the northern foothills of the Tungurahua volcano, whose activity has been characterized by frequent powerful ash explosions and lava flows that can be seen from Banos.
Average elevation: 2,365 m
Machachi
Machachi is located to the south of the capital of Ecuador, Quito. It is a city surrounded by the volcanos Atacazo, Corazon, Rumiñahui, Illinizas Peaks, Viudita Hill, Pasochoa, and Sincholagua, and owns part of the Cotopaxi volcano, a great active volcano which measures 5,897 m (19,347 ft) in altitude. In…
Average elevation: 3,542 m
Parroquia Puerto Baquerizo Moreno
Ecuador > Galápagos > Cantón San Cristóbal
Puerto Baquerizo Moreno is the capital and administrative centre of Ecuador's Galápagos Province. It is located on the southwestern coast of San Cristóbal, and the town is also nicknamed Cristóbal by the local people, after the island. Its average elevation is 6 metres (20 ft). The central part of the town,…
Average elevation: 35 m
San Miguel de Los Bancos
The canton is in the Guayllabamba river basin, which, in turn, is part of the river basin of the Esmeraldas river, which flows into the Pacific Ocean. The climate of the canton is subtropical because of its mid-high elevation, as opposed to the climate of higher elevation in the province between the Western…
Average elevation: 1,074 m
Parque Nacional Llanganates
In 2013, explorers from Ecuador, Britain, France, and America discovered and unearthed a 260 ft tall by 260 ft wide structure, made up of hundreds of two-ton stone blocks, and believe there could be more, similar constructions over an area of about a square mile. The area is 20 miles from the town of Baños…
Average elevation: 2,662 m
Guayllabamba
Guayllabamba (Kichwa: Wayllapampa, "green plain") is a small agricultural town (administratively, a rural parish of the canton of Quito) located 29 kilometers northeast of the city of Quito in northern Ecuador. In the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 12,227. The elevation is 2,142 metres (7,028 ft)…
Average elevation: 2,275 m
Punta Chacabuco
Ecuador > Galápagos > Cantón San Cristóbal > Parroquia Puerto Baquerizo Moreno
Average elevation: 12 m
Oña
Recent data has suggested that humans dispersed maize into the upper lowland of northwest Colombia at some time within a date range of 8997-8277 cal. BP. Later, human groups dispersed maize into the mid-elevation forests of the Colombian Andes by 8000-7600 cal. BP. For the coastal lowlands of Ecuador (Las…
Average elevation: 2,749 m
Isla Plaza Sur
Ecuador > Galápagos > Cantón Santa Cruz
South Plaza (Spanish: Isla Plaza Sur) is a small island off the east coast of Santa Cruz in the Galápagos Islands. It has an area of 0.13 km2 and a maximum altitude of 23 metres.
Average elevation: 5 m
Reserva Ecológica Mache - Chindul
Ecuador > Esmeraldas > Quinindé
The Mache-Chindul Ecological Reserve protects the forests of the Mache Chindul mountain range on the coast of Ecuador. It has an area of 119,172 hectares (294,480 acres). Elevations range from 200 to 800 metres (660 to 2,620 ft). The Mache Chindul range is a massif on the coastal plain west of the Andes. The…
Average elevation: 159 m
Laguna Quilotoa
Ecuador > Cotopaxi > Sigchos > Chugchillan
Quilotoa is a site of growing popularity. The route to the "summit" (the small town of Quilotoa) is generally traveled by hired truck or bus from the town of Zumbahua 17 kilometres (11 mi) to the South, or more commonly by bus from Latacunga. Visitors have to pay two US dollars each to enter Quilotoa. There…
Average elevation: 3,636 m
Sucumbíos
The western area of the province belongs to the Eastern Andes Mountains, where most rivers in the province have their sources. The most important elevation in the province is the Reventador, an active volcano. The eastern portion of the province is part of the Amazon Basin, with high temperatures.
Average elevation: 711 m
