Pululahua is a dormant
volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the Crust (geology), crust of a Planet#Planetary-mass objects, planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and volcanic gas, gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
On Ear ...
in the north of
Quito Canton
Quito, officially the Metropolitan District of Quito ( es, Distrito Metropolitano de Quito), is a canton in the province of Pichincha, Ecuador.
Governance
The canton is governed by the same mayor and city council that govern the city of Quito. ...
,
Pichincha Province
Pichincha () is a province of Ecuador located in the northern Sierra region; its capital and largest city is Quito. It is bordered by Imbabura and Esmeraldas to the north, Cotopaxi and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas to the south, Napo and ...
,
Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ' ...
. The volcano is in the Western Cordillera of the northern Ecuadorian Andes, approximately west-southwest of
Mojanda and north of
Casitahua volcanoes. Pululahua's caldera is approximately 5 km wide.
The volcano is within an Ecuadorian national park known as
Reserva Geobotánica Pululahua.
In 467 BCE, Pululahua erupted, sending volcanic ash over much of the western Ecuadorian lowland regions, which greatly reduced the expressions of the
Chorrera
The Chorrera culture or Chorrera tradition is a Late Formative indigenous culture that flourished between 1300 BCE and 300 BCE in Ecuador.White, Nancy ''South American Archaeology.'' (retrieved 1 June 2011) Chorrera culture was one of the most w ...
and
Cotocollao cultures.
[Zeidler 471]
Notes
References
*Zeidler, J. A. "The Ecuadorian Formative." Helaine Silverman and William H. Isbell, eds
''Handbook of South American Archaeology.''New York: Springer, 2008. .
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