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Rumiñahui Mountain (from Quichua rumi=rock, ñawi=eye/face) is a dormant, heavily-eroded stratovolcano 15,489 feet (4721 meters) above sea level in the Andes mountains 40 km south of Quito, Ecuador, South America, overshadowed by its taller neighbor Cotopaxi. Cotopaxi National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Cotopaxi) is a protected area in Ecuador in the Cotopaxi Province, Napo Province and Pichincha Province. The volcano is named after Rumiñahui, who was an Inca general at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. The canton of Rumiñahui in the Ecuadorian province of Pichincha was named after the volcano. It is part of the chain of volcanoes around the Pacific plate known as the Pacific Ring of Fire.