Quilotoa, Ecuador

Caldera · 3,914 m (12,841 ft)

Quilotoa is a caldera in Ecuador, 3,914 m (12,841 ft) high. Its last known eruption: aD 1 to 1499. NOAA records 1 significant eruption here.

Quilotoa on the map

Quilotoa and the volcanoes within 300 km, colored by when each last erupted.

Since 1964
1900 to 1963
1800s
AD 1 to 1799
Before AD 1, or undated

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The volcano

Type: Caldera
Elevation: 3,914 m (12,841 ft)
Country: Ecuador
Summit: 0.859° S, 78.904° W
Last known eruption: AD 1 to 1499
Holocene activity known from: Radiocarbon
Smithsonian volcano number: 352060

Significant eruptions

1 on record, newest first.

1280VEI 6

Around it

The volcanoes within 300 km.

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Sources

Volcanoes and significant eruptions from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-09-24. Volcano numbers are the Smithsonian Institution’s Global Volcanism Program’s.