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The city of Cotacachi holds a UNESCO medal for being free of illiteracy. In 2000 the canton of Cotacachi was declared the first ecological county of South America. The name Cotacachi has many meanings. In "Cara" it means "lake with women breast" which refers to the general shape of the island in Cuicocha lake; in Quichua it means powder salt ...
Santana is a town and municipality in the Ricaurte Province, in the north of the Colombian department of Boyacá. The urban centre is situated at an altitude of 1,550 metres (5,090 ft) in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes .
The city of Cotacachi holds a UNESCO medal for being free of illiteracy. In 2000 the entire canton was declared the first ecological county of South America. Cotacachi was designated a Pueblo Mágico (magical town) by the Ecuadorian Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR) in 2019. It is one of the country's five original Pueblos Mágicos.
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 house featured in "Home Alone" has found a buyer, seven months after it was put on the market and just in time for Christmas.. The 5-bedroom, 6-bathroom house located in Winnetka, Illinois was ...
Ventaquemada is a town and municipality in the Central Boyacá Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá.Ventaquemada is located at a distance of 98 kilometres (61 mi) from the capital Bogotá and 29 kilometres (18 mi) from the departmental capital Tunja.
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 ]
Santana (Portuguese pronunciation: [sɐ̃'tɐ̃nɐ]) is a municipality located in the southeast of the state of Amapá in Brazil. Its population is 123,096 and its area is 1,541 square kilometres (595 square miles ), which makes it the smallest municipality of Amapá.