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El Altar
El Altar or Kapak Urku (Kichwa ''kapak'' principal, great, important / magnificence, ''urku'' mountain,〔Kichwa Yachakukkunapa Shimiyuk Kamu (Ministry of Education, Ecuador) (Kichwa-Spanish dictionary), 2009〕 "sublime mountain", hispanicized ''Capac Urcu, Cápac Urcu'')〔Miñaca Rea Silvia Patricia, Vallejo Lara Vicente Orlando, ''Diseño de paquetes turísticos para el Nevado Los Altares por el sector Inguisay'', Universidad de Chimborazo, 2010 (in Spanish)〕 is an extinct volcano on the western side of Sangay National Park in Ecuador, 170 km south of Quito. Spaniards named it so because it resembled two nuns and four friars listening to a bishop around a church altar.
==Geology==
The mountain consists of a large stratovolcano of Pliocene-Pleistocene age with a caldera breached to the west. Inca legends report that the top of Altar collapsed after seven years of activity in about 1460, but the caldera is considered to be much older than this by geologists. Nine major peaks over form a horseshoe-shaped ridge about across, surrounding a central basin that contains a crater lake at about , known as Laguna Collanes or Laguna Amarilla.
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