page_title: Cotopaxi
section_title: In art
hierarchical_section_title: Cotopaxi / In art
caption_attribution_description: English: Cotopaxi
context_page_description: Cotopaxi is an active stratovolcano in the Andes Mountains, located in the Latacunga canton of Cotopaxi Province, about 50 km south of Quito, and 33 km northeast of the city of Latacunga, Ecuador, in South America. It is the second highest summit in Ecuador, reaching a height of 5,897 m. It is one of the world's highest volcanoes.
  Since 1738, Cotopaxi has erupted more than 50 times, resulting in the creation of numerous valleys formed by lahars around the volcano. The last eruption lasted from August 2015 to January 2016. Cotopaxi was officially closed by the authorities to climbing until it reopened on October 7, 2017.
context_section_description: Cotopaxi is commonly depicted in the traditional paintings of the indigenous people of Tigua, as the volcano holds significant cultural value.
  Cotopaxi was the subject of important works by painter Frederic Edwin Church in 1855 and 1862.
  In the poem Romance by Walter J. Turner (1916), Cotopaxi is one of the romantic locations that has stolen the poet's heart.
  In the American film Close Encounters of The Third Kind (1977), the SS Cotopaxi, a ship named Cotopaxi that disappeared in 1925, appears in the Gobi Desert.
  American rock band The Mars Volta have a song named after the mountain.
  In The Star (1897), a short story by H. G. Wells, Cotopaxi erupts with a tumult of lava that reaches the coastline in a day.
  In Shadrach in the Furnace (1976), a science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg, an eruption by Cotapaxi becomes known as "the night of Cotopaxi". It starts a series of disasters and uprisings that establish in the early 21st century a world dictatorship by the Mongolian Genghis Mao.
caption: Cotopaxi by Frederic Edwin Church, 1862.
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