Jefferson Herrera stands with his Alpaca beside Quilotoa crater lake, an area regarded by many Ecuadorian communities as a sacred space. Photograph by Ben Pipe The town of Zumbahua acts as the gateway ...

Eight-hundred years ago, a catastrophic volcanic eruption in the westernmost Ecuadorian Andes formed the Quilotoa Crater Lake: a two-mile-wide caldera filled with water of a brilliant turquoise, ...

Located in the Cotopaxi Province of central Ecuador, Quilotoa Lake is a stunning water-filled caldera formed from a collapsed ...

It takes some work to get to Ecuador’s Quilotoa Lake. Visiting the collapsed volcano requires hiring a bus or truck to navigate the steep roads, and a hardy constitution to endure its 12,000-foot ...