El Altar
Good to know
- Best time to go
- November to February for the driest trekking conditions
- Budget
- $
- Accessibility
- not-accessible
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
A collapsed, deeply eroded volcano whose jagged crown of nine peaks encircles the yellow-green crater lake of Laguna Amarilla. The two-day trek from Candelaria through boggy páramo is one of Ecuador's classic wilderness hikes, ending at a natural amphitheater draped in hanging glaciers.
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