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Mountain · Cordillera Occidental

Pasochoa

4,200 m13,780 ft

Easiest route: 1.2 km+320 m · about 1 h
Prominence: 794 m2,604 ft
Isolation: 11 km
Tonight: 1°CLight rain showers · Wind 6 km/h S

Pasochoa is a 4,200 m (13,780 ft) mountain in the Cordillera Occidental, Ecuador.

All facts

Elevation: 4,200 m · 13,780 ft
Nearest higher peak: Rumiñahui (4,721 m)
Range: Cordillera Occidental
Region: Ecuador
Coordinates: 0.4665° S, 78.4804° W

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Route

How to get to the top of Pasochoa

The shortest mapped walking route from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.

From Road end, 1.0 km NE of Pasochoa

Distance: 1.2 kmone way
Climb: +320 m−21 m (1,050 ft up)
Time up: about 1 h
Difficulty: Grade not mapped

Pasochoa elevation profile

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Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.

3D map

Pasochoa 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Pasochoa terrain and contours

50 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

Index contours every 250 mShowing west → east through the summit

West → east through the summit

Hover the profile to read elevation and distance.Tap or drag along the profile to read elevation and distance.

Weather

Pasochoa weather

Tonight · Light rain showers · 1°C (34°F) · 0.9 mm · Wind 6 km/h S

Pasochoa forecast for the summit, about 4,200 m.

Tonight1°0.9 mm6 km/h S
Sat0°13°15.9 mm12 km/h NW
Sun2°11°13.3 mm9 km/h NW
Mon2°9°9.0 mm8 km/h NW
Tue1°11°1.5 mm9 km/h N
Wed2°10°4.0 mm8 km/h N
Thu3°7°21.1 mm3 km/h S
Fri3°9°11.9 mm5 km/h N
Sat4°6°26.3 mm3 km/h S
Sun2°6°18.3 mm7 km/h N

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:19 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Pasochoa

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Pasochoa, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

Nearest campsite
Campamento del Pasochoa
2.9 km NNW · +2 more within 6.5 km
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Nearest hut
Reserva Ecologica Pasochoa - Entrada
6.6 km NW
Directions Map
Nearest parking
6.6 km NW
Directions Map

All mapped places 5

Place	Distance
Campamento del PasochoaCampsite	2.9 km NNW
Secret Garden CotopaxiCampsite	4.2 km SSE
El VallecitoCampsite	6.5 km E
Reserva Ecologica Pasochoa - EntradaHut	6.6 km NW
Parking	6.6 km NW

Slope

How steep is the route to Pasochoa?

The easiest mapped route, 1.2 km from 3,864 m to 4,200 m. Steepest stretch: 46°.

0 km · 3,864 m1.2 km · 4,200 m

0–15°0.7 km
15–30°0.4 km
30–45°0.1 km

Grades are averaged between profile points about 20 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 44.1%Grassland 38.5%Shrubland 13.7%Cropland 3.5%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Where it sits

Where Pasochoa sits

Ranked in 1

#11 Treks and hikes in the Andes

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

QuilotoaPeak · 3,800 m66 km SW

Pasochoa downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

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GIS & GPS

GPXPasochoa GPX / KML route downloadIn the route section. Mapped route for GPS apps and Google Earth, under the ODbL.

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

28 m low This 3D map reads 4,172 m at the summit; the official height is 4,200 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 41 m.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	4,200 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	4,172 m	-28 m
Copernicus GLO-90	4,159 m	-41 m

Data sources

Terrain: Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Accuracy comparison, Panorama: Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia

Pasochoa

From Road end, 1.0 km NE of Pasochoa

West → east through the summit

Nearest campsite

Nearest hut

Nearest parking

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