Us on summit of GuaGua Pinchinca

GuaGua Pinchinca, the middle of the world and Iliniza North

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July 16th 2006
Hola Gua Gua Pinchinca Today I stood on my first volcano!!!!!! It wasn´t Cam´s... but it was mine! After all those courses at Uni... its nice to be a geography lover again and go ooooh. It was also really nice to get out of Quito and away from the pollution - there is quite a lot of pollution in the city centre. This was also a good test to see how the altitude was. We dr ... read more

South America » Ecuador » North » Quito

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The "Republic of the Equator" was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Colombia and Venezuela). Between 1904 and 1942, Ecuador lost territories in a series of conflicts with its neighbors. A b... ... read more