Antisana

American  

[ahn-tee-sah-nah] / ˌɑn tiˈsɑ nɑ /

noun

1. Mount Antisana, an active volcano in northern central Ecuador, near Quito. 18,885 feet (5,756 meters).

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Antisana British  

/ antiˈsana /

noun

1. a volcano in N central Ecuador, in the Andes. Height: 5756 m (18 885 ft)

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Example Sentences

There were miles of fantastic hiking trails on its 4,400-acre property, which bridged two parts of the Antisana National Park.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2023

Moret's team decided to do its own survey of those patterns—not on Chimborazo, but on Antisana, the source of most of Humboldt's data.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 11, 2019

What's more, Moret and his co-authors found that much of the data Humboldt displayed on the slopes of Chimborazo actually came from another volcano, 5700-meter Antisana, 130 kilometers to the northeast.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 11, 2019

On Antisana, we found the hut in which Humboldt had slept in 1802!

From National Geographic • Sep. 13, 2015

Cotopaxi and Pinchincha, Antisana and Illinaza, the various craters of one subterranean fire, were all examined by the travellers, a fortnight being devoted to each.

From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Benett, Léon