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Volcán Cayambe, Ecuador

Prominence: 2075 m, 6808 ft

Elevation: 5790 meters, 18,996 feet

True Isolation: 92.51 km, 57.48 mi

Alternate Name(s)	Nevado Cayembe
Subpeaks	Cayambe-Equator High Point (4680 m/15,354 ft)
Peak Type	Volcano
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	0° 1' 31'' N, 77° 59' 20'' W 0.02515, -77.988983 (Dec Deg) 167249 E 2784 N, Zone 18 (UTM)
Country	Ecuador
State/Province	Pichincha (Highest Point)
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Volcán Cayambe": Wikipedia Search Microsoft Bing Search Google Search Yahoo Search Other Web Sites Cayambe at SummitPost.org Weather for Cayambe at Mountain-Forecast.com Lists that contain Volcán Cayambe: Ecuador Province High Points (Rank #3) 1500-meter Prominence Peak with Ascents (Rank #99) Octant High Points (Rank #6) Ultras of South America (Rank #56) Ultras of Ecuador and Peru (Rank #8) Selected Trip Reports from this site: 2006-06-11 by Sebastien Gerard 2008-12-19 by Rob Woodall 2008-12-19 by Adam Helman 2008-12-19 by Petter Bjørstad 2009-12-24 by Jeffrey Pinger (Unsuccessful) 2011-02-15 by Dennis Uhlir 2013-06-23 by Paul Brossier (Unsuccessful) (GPS Track) 2015-10-31 by Thomas Fullerton (Unsuccessful) 2015-12-11 by Rakesh . 2015-12-22 by Rob Busack (GPS Track) 2016-01-13 by Tyler Smallwood 2016-01-20 by Steve Brown (GPS Track) 2016-12-23 by Harvest Mondello 2017-07-30 by Alain C (Unsuccessful) 2017-07-30 by Mathieu Grenier (Unsuccessful) 2018-09-17 by Ethan Paquin (Unsuccessful) 2019-01-08 by Rafee Memon (GPS Track) View ascents of peak by registered Peakbagger.com members (66 total) Nearby Peak Searches: Radius Search - Nearest Peaks to Volcán Cayambe Elevation Ladder from Volcán Cayambe Prominence Ladder from Volcán Cayambe
The highest point on the Earth's equator is located on the south slope of this large and famous volcano.

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Volcan Cayambe from the refugio (2009-11-12). Photo by Ken Jones.
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Prominence

Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)
  Clean Prominence: 2075 m/6808 ft
  Optimistic Prominence: 2075 m/6808 ft
  Key Col: 3715 m/12,188 ft

Isolation

Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)
   Distance: 92.51 km/57.48 mi
   Isolation Limit Point: -0.6792, -78.4375
Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:
    Volcán Cotopaxi  (SSW)

Ranges

Continent: South America
Range2: Andes
Range3: Ecuador Andes
Range4: Cordillera Oriental (Ecuador)

Drainage Basins

Amazon
Atlantic Ocean

Minor Streams of Western South America
Pacific Ocean

Ownership

Land: Cayambe-Coca Ecological Reserve (Highest Point)

Data Source

GPS Reading or LIDAR

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