The activities most common in this park are the andinismo, the scaling and the hiking.
The National Park Sangay, of 270000 has of extension, is located in the region Eastern center of Ecuador, in the provinces of Chimborazo, Tungurahua and Morona Santiago. Created in 1979, he is one of the three majors parks of the country, along with the one of Yasuní and the one of Podocarpus.
Active volcano Sangay is one of its main attractions: it has a height of 5230 meters, and is the volcano that has remained in active-duty during more time anywhere in the world; its last eruption took place in 1983. In this park also is Tungurahua volcano, of 5033 meters, whose last eruption happened in 1975, and where beautiful cascades, flora and fauna can be observed. Another attraction is the Altar, extinct volcano of 5319 meters of height, one of the most beautiful Ecuadorian summits, whose name must that its silhouette is resembled a gothic altar.
The western zones of the park arrive at 5.000m of altitude around three mentioned volcanos; and from the green deserts the lands are descending to as soon as the 1000 ms, in the limit this. In the middle, the landscape so is escarped and humid that savage stays. Only a few and remote indigenous communities sprinkle the deserts. In Eastern slopes of leafy vegetation they dominate the descried mammals rarely, without human presence.
The park offers ample ecosystems that include tropical forests, deserts and perpetual snows in summits of volcanos. The most outstanding animal of Sangay are the bear of spectacles, the jaguar, tigrillo, the Andean condor, the pudú Mefistófeles, tapir of the $andes, the gallito of the mountain range, the monkey spider, the corpulent monkey, the howling monkey, caymans, pirañas, between many others, as well as a great variety of insects. By its extraordinary biodiversity, the National Park Sangay was declared Natural Patrimony of the Humanity in 1983.
Only one highway of certain importance penetrates in this park, that is the one that unites Riobamba with Alao (main joining point to Sangay volcano) and finishes in the deserts of the east. Another way, in construction, will communicate Guamote, in the mountain range, with Macas, in the south of the East, happening through the southern end of the park. This has caused that UNESCO is including the park in the list of patrimony in danger, dices 8 km of highway that penetrate in him. To it would be necessary to add, the later colonization, deforestation, and consequent erosion and reduction of ecosystems.