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Pichincha Volcano
- Easiest route
- 1.1 km+215 m · about 0.5 h
- Prominence
- 1,633 m5,356 ft
- Isolation
- 40 km
- Tonight
- -1°CLight rain · Wind 4 km/h N
Pichincha Volcano is a 4,776 m (15,669 ft) stratovolcano in the Cordillera Occidental, Pichincha Province, Ecuador.
All facts
- Elevation
- 4,776 m · 15,669 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Corazón volcano (4,790 m)
- Range
- Cordillera Occidental
- Region
- Pichincha Province, Ecuador
- Spanish name
- Volcán Pichincha
- Coordinates
- 0.1754° S, 78.6004° W
How to get to the top of Pichincha Volcano
The shortest mapped walking route from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
From Road end, 0.5 km SE of Pichincha Volcano
- Distance
- 1.1 kmone way
- Climb
- +215 m−9 m (705 ft up)
- Time up
- about 0.5 h
- Difficulty
- Grade not mapped
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Pichincha Volcano 3D map
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Pichincha Volcano terrain and contours
100 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.
West → east through the summit
Pichincha Volcano weather
Tonight · Light rain · -1°C (30°F) · 6.6 mm · Wind 4 km/h N
Pichincha Volcano forecast for the summit, about 4,776 m.
- Tonight-1°6.6 mm4 km/h N
- Sat-2°7°22.0 mm12 km/h W
- Sun-1°5°23.8 mm12 km/h NW
- Mon-1°4°19.8 mm6 km/h W
- Tue0°4°28.5 mm3 km/h NW
- Wed0°5°32.4 mm2 km/h NW
- Thu0°2°45.3 mm5 km/h W
- Fri0°2°60.3 mm2 km/h SE
- Sat0°3°35.0 mm4 km/h SE
- Sun-1°3°25.5 mm5 km/h NW
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 near Pichincha Volcano
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Pichincha Volcano, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest hut
Refugio del Volcán Pichincha
Nearest parking
2.1 km SE
All mapped places 4
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Refugio del Volcán PichinchaHut | 0.5 km SE |
| Parking | 2.1 km SE |
| Cabaña San Francisco de Cruz LomaHut | 7.3 km ESE |
| Parking | 7.3 km NNE |
How steep is the route to Pichincha Volcano?
The easiest mapped route, 1.1 km from 4,553 m to 4,776 m. Steepest stretch: 42°.
- 0–15°0.7 km
- 15–30°0.3 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 10 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 5.3 km, measured from the Pichincha Volcano summit.
Summit list 4
- 1Cerro Chuquiragua4,374 m 2.5 km ESE
- 2Padre Encantado4,600 m 2.7 km ENE
- 3Ladrillos4,577 m 3.1 km ENE
- 4Rucu Pichincha4,696 m 4.0 km ENE
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 5.3 km; 474 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Chuquiragua219
- Carunculated Caracara195
- Gentianella foliosa138
- Chikku Chikku113
- Lasiocephalus ovatus94
- Valeriana pilosa81
Where Pichincha Volcano sits
- Range
- American Cordillera467Andes163Cordillera Occidental6
- Region
- Pichincha Province4Ecuador20South America235
Nearby places
El PanecilloPeak · 3,016 m↑11 km ESE
PasochoaPeak · 4,200 m↑35 km SSE
RumiñahuiPeak · 4,721 m↑47 km SSE
Cotopaxi volcanoPeak · 5,897 m↑59 km SSE
Antisana volcanoPeak · 5,758 m↑62 km SE
More in the Cordillera Occidental 2
Pichincha Volcano downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
14 m low This 3D map reads 4,762 m at the summit; the official height is 4,776 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 4,776 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 4,762 m | -14 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 4,753 m | -23 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)
- Routes, Camping & parking
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- 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