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Cotacachi is a town that is the seat of Cotacachi Canton, Imbabura Province, Ecuador, in South America. Cotacachi is located at an altitude of 2,418 metres (7,933 ft) and had a population of 8,848 in 2010. [2] Cotacachi is an artisan city that is famous for its leather goods and handicrafts.
Cuicocha (Kichwa: Kuykucha 'lake of guinea pigs' or Kuychikucha 'rainbow lake') [1] is a 3 km (1.9 mi) wide caldera and crater lake at the foot of Cotacachi Volcano in the Cordillera Occidental of the Ecuadorian Andes. Its name comes from the Kichwa indigenous language and means "Lago del Cuy" or Guinea Pig Lake in English. It was given this ...
The volcano is located in the large Cotacachi Cayapas Ecological Reserve. Imbabura Volcano is also located in the province. Best reached from the town of La Esperanza, the 4,609 metres (15,121 ft) high mountain can be climbed in a single day. Cotacachi volcano as seen from the town of Cotacachi.
No. City Province 2010 Census 2001 Census 1990 Census 1 Guayaquil: Guayas: 2,278,691: 1,985,379: 1,508,444 2 Quito: Pichincha: 1,607,734: 1,399,378: 1,100,847 3 Cuenca
Cotacachi is a canton of Imbabura province of Ecuador in South America. The name also refers to Cotacachi , the seat of that canton, which is one of Ecuador's leading artisanal manufacturers of leather goods, and to the dormant Cotacachi Volcano which overlooks the canton.
Intag is a remote, partly mountainous area in Cotacachi Canton and Otavalo Canton Imbabura Province, Ecuador, named for the Intag river. It includes Intag Cloud Forest Reserve, which has primary cloud forest at 1800–2800 m and a high biodiversity. [1] [2] Cotacachi Cayapas Ecological Reserve borders to the North. [3]
Cotacachi Cayapas Reserve contains 752,235 acres (3,044 km 2) of land and is located in the Imbabura and Esmeraldas provinces of Ecuador 87 miles (140 km) from Quito. Elevations in the reserve range from about 300 metres (980 ft) in the west to Cotacachi Volcano which reaches an elevation of 4,944 metres (16,220 ft) in the southeast. [ 1 ]
Chachi people (also Cayapas) are an ethnic group who live in the rainforest area of northwestern Esmeraldas on the northern coast of Ecuador.They live by the Cayapas River in the Centro El Encanto, a section of the Cotacachi Cayapas Ecological Reserve, as do Afro Ecuadorian people; [1] the two groups have co-existed in the forest for about 400 years. [1]