‘Cotopaxi’ is an active volcano situated in

Active volcanoes cluster in specific tectonic settings — subduction-zone mountain arcs, mid-ocean hotspot chains, and continental rift belts — and each setting produces its own well-known chain of volcanoes.

Cotopaxi is one of the world's highest active volcanoes and lies in Ecuador, within the Andes mountain range. It forms part of the Northern Andean Volcanic Arc, produced where the Nazca oceanic plate subducts beneath the South American continental plate.

• Sicily's active volcano is Mount Etna, part of the Mediterranean volcanic system formed by the African plate's interaction with Europe — a different setting from Cotopaxi's Andean arc.

• Hawaii's volcanoes, such as Mauna Loa and Kilauea, form over a stationary mantle hotspot beneath the moving Pacific Plate, unrelated to the subduction-driven Andean arc.

• The Rocky Mountains are chiefly a fold-and-thrust mountain belt built by tectonic compression, without the active subduction-zone volcanism that produces Cotopaxi's volcanic arc.

So Cotopaxi's location places it firmly in the Andes.