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El Altar
Capak Urcu
El Altar in 2006
Highest point
Elevation5,319 m (17,451 ft)[1]
Prominence2,072 m (6,798 ft)[1]
ListingUltra
List of volcanoes in Ecuador
Coordinates01°39′48″S 78°24′33″W / 1.66333°S 78.40917°W / -1.66333; -78.40917[1]
Geography
El Altar is located in Ecuador
El Altar
El Altar
Ecuador
Parent rangeAndes
Geology
Age of rockPliocene-Pleistocene
Mountain typeStratovolcano (extinct)
Last eruptionUnknown
Climbing
First ascent7 July 1963 by Marino Tremonti, Ferdinando Gaspard and Claudio Zardini[2]
Easiest routerock/ice climb

El Altar or Capac Urcu (possibly from Kichwa kapak principal, great, important / magnificence, urku mountain)[3][4] is an extinct volcano on the western side of Sangay National Park in Ecuador, 170 km (110 mi) south of Quito, with a highest point of 5,319 m (17,451 ft). Spaniards named it so because it resembled two nuns and four friars listening to a bishop around a church altar. In older English sources it is also called The Altar.[5]

  1. ^ a b c "Ecuador: 15 Mountain Summits with Prominence of 1,500 meters or greater" Peaklist.org. Retrieved 2013-03-01.
  2. ^ Neate, Jill. Mountaineering in the Andes: A Sourcebook for Climbers. Royal Geographical Society, 1994, p.26.
  3. ^ Kichwa Yachakukkunapa Shimiyuk Kamu (Ministry of Education, Ecuador) (Kichwa-Spanish dictionary), 2009
  4. ^ Miñaca Rea Silvia Patricia, Vallejo Lara Vicente Orlando, Diseño de paquetes turísticos para el Nevado Los Altares por el sector Inguisay, Universidad de Chimborazo, 2010 (in Spanish)
  5. ^ The New International Encyclopaedia Volume 1 ed Frank Moore Colby, Talcott Williams 1918 Page 618 "The northern group, mainly comprised in Ecuador, is the most imposing collection of active and extinct volcanoes on earth. ... The Altar, a truncated mountain, 17,736 feet in height, is said to have once been the highest in the region"

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