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Rumiñahui
- Easiest route
- 4.0 km+719 m · about 2 h
- Prominence
- 862 m2,829 ft
- Isolation
- 10 km
- Tonight
- -2°CCloudy · Wind 8 km/h S
Rumiñahui is a 4,721 m (15,489 ft) stratovolcano in the Andes, Pichincha Province, Ecuador.
All facts
- Elevation
- 4,721 m · 15,489 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Cotopaxi volcano (5,897 m)
- Range
- Andes
- Region
- Pichincha Province, Ecuador
- Protected area
- Cotopaxi National Park
- Spanish name
- Volcán Rumiñahui
- Coordinates
- 0.5938° S, 78.5132° W
How to get to the top of Rumiñahui
The shortest mapped walking route from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
From Road end, 2.7 km WSW of Rumiñahui
- Distance
- 4.0 kmone way
- Climb
- +719 m−131 m (2,359 ft up)
- Time up
- about 2 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.
Rumiñahui 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 7.4 × 7.4 km
Rumiñahui 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.
West → east through the summit
Rumiñahui weather
Tonight · Cloudy · -2°C (28°F) · 0.3 mm · Wind 8 km/h S
Rumiñahui forecast for the summit, about 4,721 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 4,079 m.
- Tonight-2°0.3 mm8 km/h SBase 2°
- Sat-3°10°13.8 mm14 km/h SEBase 1 / 13°
- Sun-1°8°17.7 mm10 km/h NWBase 3 / 12°
- Mon-1°8°4.7 mm4 km/h SEBase 3 / 11°
- Tue-2°8°1.9 mm7 km/h NBase 2 / 12°
- Wed-2°7°8.7 mm5 km/h SEBase 2 / 11°
- Thu0°3°26.3 mm4 km/h SBase 3 / 6°
- Fri0°5°15.1 mm4 km/h SBase 4 / 9°
- Sat0°4°19.4 mm5 km/h SEBase 4 / 7°
- Sun0°5°18.1 mm6 km/h NWBase 3 / 8°
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, 23:18 UTC.
Camping & parking near Rumiñahui
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Rumiñahui, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
Möglicher Übernachtungsplatz
Nearest campsite
La Rinconada
All mapped places 6
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Möglicher ÜbernachtungsplatzParking | 5.0 km ESE |
| Campsite | 5.5 km SE |
| Parking | 5.7 km SSE |
| Parking | 5.8 km SSE |
| La RinconadaCampsite | 5.8 km SE |
| Campsite | 6.2 km SE |
How steep is the route to Rumiñahui?
The easiest mapped route, 4.0 km from 4,079 m to 4,721 m. Steepest stretch: 44°.
- 0–15°2.7 km
- 15–30°1.1 km
- 30–45°0.2 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 50 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 3.7 km, measured from the Rumiñahui summit.
Summit list 3
- 1Rumiňahui central4,630 m 0.8 km NE
- 2Rumiňahui norte4,721 m 1.5 km NNE
- 3Rumiñahui noroccidental4,490 m 2.3 km N
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3.7 km; 85 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Chuquiragua35
- Gentianella cerastioides31
- Chikku Chikku27
- Gentiana sedifolia21
- Culcitium canescens21
- Valeriana pilosa18
Where Rumiñahui sits
- Range
- American Cordillera467Andes163
- Region
- Pichincha Province4Ecuador20South America235
Nearby places
Cotopaxi volcanoPeak · 5,897 m↑13 km SE
PasochoaPeak · 4,200 m↑15 km NNE
El PanecilloPeak · 3,016 m↑41 km N
Antisana volcanoPeak · 5,758 m↑43 km ENE
Pichincha VolcanoPeak · 4,776 m↑49 km NNW
More in the Andes 6
Rumiñahui downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
41 m low This 3D map reads 4,680 m at the summit; the official height is 4,721 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 61 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 4,721 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 4,680 m | -41 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 4,660 m | -61 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