Enjoy a day in the real andes the cotopaxi national park is a stunning paramo area with beautiful elevations lagoons and the most perfect conic shaped volcano in ecuador the cotopaxi stands at an altitude of5 897m above the sea levelon a clear day cotopaxi is easy visible from quito the cotopaxi national park is located in the cotopaxi province next to latacunga city in the south of ecuador its beautiful cone rises from a highland plain with a width at its base of approx 23kilometer