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Cotopaxi

Cotopaxi

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A large active volcano high in the Andes of Ecuador
  • proper noun
: Cotopaxi
  • Princess indeed: as soon as she'd reached ninth grade, Julia asked to leave Ecuador, where Johnny was inspecting the Cotopaxi volcano, and go to a Swiss boarding school instead.
  • Cotopaxi volcano
  • Cotopaxi National Park

Examples

  • A golden boy came to take her to Chimborazo, Cotopaxi, and Popocatépetl as well.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • Again in 2000, widespread malaria was observed in the coastal and Amazonian areas of Ecuador (Figure 6, panel C), but only Pichincha and, to a lesser extent, Cotopaxi and Bolvar observed an increase in cases in the highlands (Figures 5, 6).

    Academic text (2012)

  • The stunning beauty of Cotopaxi National Park drew us away from the markets and onto hiking trails and horses.

  • Today, Cotopaxi, the world's highest active volcano, merely grumbles and steams, biding its time.

  • But what a setting, with views of the spectacular Cotopaxi volcano.

Surface Forms

Cotopaxi main

Etymology

Cotopaxi comes from the native Quechua language. A helpful way to remember it is to think of its parts as coto meaning 'neck' and paxi meaning 'moon', so the name can be seen as the 'neck of the moon', a clear picture for a very high, snow-covered volcano that reaches up toward the sky.