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"Cotopaxi's shape if the most beautiful and regular of all the colossal peaks in the high Andes. It is a perfect cone, covered by a thick blanket of snow which shines so brilliantly at sunset it seems detached from Me azure of the sky."
- Alexander von Humboldt, 1820 Cotopaxi crater is located about
9-10
miles from Hacienda San Agustin de Callo. There is a great view
of the Cotopaxi volcano from the Hacienda's dining room. In 1859 Frederic E. Church, famous painter from the Hudson River school, immortalized the Cotopaxi, the highest active voIcano in the world. Indian
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