Quilotoa crater lake in the andes mountains of Ecuador
Amazing crater lake located in Cotopaxi province in central Ecuador. The 3-kilometre 2 mi-wide caldera was formed by the collapse of this dacite volcano following a catastrophic VEI-6 eruption about 600 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.
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