Travel to Quilotoa in Ecuador

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Quilotoa is a water-filled crater lake and the most western volcano in the Ecuadorian Andes. The 3-kilometre -wide caldera was formed by the collapse of this dacite volcano following a catastrophic VEI-6 eruption about 800 years ago, which produced pyroclastic flows and lahars that reached the Pacific Ocean, and spread an airborne deposit of volcanic ash throughout the northern Andes. [1] This last eruption followed a dormancy period of 14,000 years and is known as the 1280 Plinian eruption. [2] The fourth eruptive phase was phreatomagmatic, indicating that a Crater lake was already present at that time. [3] The caldera has since accumulated a 250-metre-deep crater lake, which has a greenish color as a result of dissolved minerals. Fumaroles are found on the lake floor and hot springs occur on the eastern flank of the volcano

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Zoom @Robinson Recalde

Zoom @Robinson Recalde

Zoom @Robinson Recalde

Zoom @Robinson Recalde

Shot with a Canon EOS 700D. Exposure: 1/200, Aperture: 7.1, Focal Length: 59.0, ISO: 100