The Cotopaxi is one of the most active volcanoes in Ecuador. At 5,897 meters above sea level, it is the second-highest peak in the country and together with the Sangay and Reventador volcanoes ...

At least once a week for more than 60 years, a man in a traditional black felt hat began a trek up Ecuador’s highest ... on the southern face of a dormant volcano known as Chimborazo.

The Brazilian firm was found to have committed contractual and technical violations on a $320 million power-plant project ...

Ecuador's Cotopaxi volcano has been emitting a plume of gas and vapour which over the weekend reached a height of 1.8km (1.1 miles) above its crater. Ash from the volcano has fallen south of the ...

A volcanic eruption in Ecuador has covered 80,000 hectares of farming land in Ecuador in ash, the Andean country's government says. The worst affected areas are the provinces of Chimborazo and ...

GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR, June 24--An eight-man film team, including four Harvard graduate and undergraduate students, took the first pictures of an erupting volcano in the Galapagos Islands early this ...

Hiking Quiloto - Ecuador's most beautiful lake is a MUST add to your Ecuador bucket list. Quilotoa is a water-filled crater lake and the most western volcano in Ecuador's Andes. The 3-kilometre ...

Half- and full-day guided tours to the volcano are also offered by companies like Nature Galapagos & Ecuador and Rosedelco starting at $45 per person. Day Tour to Isabela Island with Tintorera ...

Trailing behind the fluffy animal, however, is a tail longer than the rest of its body combined, more than 6 inches long, ...

With its outstanding natural beauty and two active volcanoes, the Sangay National Park illustrates within its 270,000 hectares the entire spectrum of ecosystems of Ecuador. These include glacial and ...

A new species of mouse with a remarkably long tail, dubbed Otavalo’s Andean mouse, has been discovered near a dormant volcano in Ecuador. Named in honor of the local Otavalo culture, the mouse ...

Hiking up a volcano, zip lining and kayaking through Ecuador were activities that made up only a small facet of Manheim Township School District’s International Baccalaureate students’ trip ...