Pululahua is a dormant

volcano A volcano is commonly defined as a vent or fissure in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most oft ...

in the north of

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, Pichincha Province,

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. 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 and Cotocollao cultures.Zeidler 471

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*Zeidler, J. A. "The Ecuadorian Formative." Helaine Silverman and William H. Isbell, eds
''Handbook of South American Archaeology.''
New York: Springer, 2008. . * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pululagua Quito Canton Volcanoes of Ecuador Calderas of Ecuador Geography of Pichincha Province Pleistocene volcanoes Holocene volcanoes