Cotopaxi

Cotopaxi stands 5,897 metres above the sea, in the Andes of Ecuador: the 18th highest of the 56 summits in this index. Its nearest neighbour here is Chimborazo, 97 km to the south-west.

Topography draws it the way it draws everything: contour lines every 50 metres, coloured from teal valleys to a gold summit, with water, borders and names, and nothing else. No satellite imagery, no shaded relief, no zoom slider. A handful of fixed scales, and the lines.

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