April 14, 2007

• SANGAY (17,150 ft.)  as seen from EL ALTAR (17,450 ft.)
  
  

  
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  Sangay used to erupt every ten minutes, but after an earthquake in March of 1987, it’s activities
  have slowed to only twice an hour.
  

  
  Baron Von Humboldt heard how, in a remote past, El Altar collapsed to a
  size smaller than Chimborazo (the largest mountain in Ecuador). The outline of Altar’s slopes suggests that this
  really did happen. Its name in Quichua “Capacurcu” means “majestic mountain.”
   
  

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