Quilotoa loop and descend to Tigua 040115jc
Trail photos
Author
Trail stats
- Distance
- 18.85 mi
- Elevation gain
- 4,291 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 5,394 ft
- Max elevation
- 12,851 ft
- TrailRank
- 35
- Min elevation
- 10,861 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 10 hours 10 minutes
- Coordinates
- 2760
- Uploaded
- January 15, 2015
- Recorded
- January 2015
near Cuizán, Cotopaxi (Ecuador)
Viewed 1451 times, downloaded 38 times
Trail photos
Itinerary description
Quite demanding day because of the long distance and the height difference. First we did the Quilotoa crater loop anti-clockwise, descending to the lake tawards the end of the loop through no very defined paths, but not extremely difficult, then reaching the lake side were tourist facilities are, and ascending to the community using the normal-usual track. This took us the whole morning.
After lunch we descended to the community of Tigua to reach the main road and take a any passing by bus to Latacunga. The only difficulty is to descend into a valley throgh a quite steep sand area (arenal) then crossing the small river barefoot (this was very easy as it was around 4 meters wide and 20 cms deep (December)
The climb up to the other side of the valley has a very interesting part where you are inside a vertical canyon with walls reaching 7 or 8 meters high in some parts. This canyon is not longer than 100 metres but needless to say, dont take it if it is raining.
From there, reaching Tigua will be some more kilometres following a track.
After lunch we descended to the community of Tigua to reach the main road and take a any passing by bus to Latacunga. The only difficulty is to descend into a valley throgh a quite steep sand area (arenal) then crossing the small river barefoot (this was very easy as it was around 4 meters wide and 20 cms deep (December)
The climb up to the other side of the valley has a very interesting part where you are inside a vertical canyon with walls reaching 7 or 8 meters high in some parts. This canyon is not longer than 100 metres but needless to say, dont take it if it is raining.
From there, reaching Tigua will be some more kilometres following a track.
Comments (3)
You can add a comment or review this trail
Muy buena ruta, por lo pronto espero ir desde Quilotoa a Tigua
Gracias por compartir tan valiosa información
Saludos
Maribel
Buena y bonita ruta!
Pero es larga y cansada.
Si tienes tiempo de sobra, no hagas el Loop del cráter del Quilotoa el mismo dia y lo disfrutaras mas.
Buena caminada.
La vuelta al Quilotoa ya lo hice muchas veces, esta de Tigua me parece bonita por el cañón del Río Toachi.
Gracias!!