How is it possible thatthere is snow in Ecuador at the equator which is supposed to have the hottest temperature?

Answer 1

Well first of all, the highest temperatures on Earth were not measured at the equator.

But aside from that, the elevation of a place above sea level also has a lot to do

with its climate. There are places in Ecuador that are not too far from the equator,

but their elevation is as much as 12,000 feet and they're covered with snow

during most of the year. Tourists typically describe them as "mountains".

Answer 2

The Andes Mountains are over 10,000 ft in elevation. The snow occurs only in higher elevations.
The place your talking about is Volcan Cayambe, since is a short distance above the snow line, it is the only place that has snow year round on the ground

Answer 3

The snow line at the equator is not actually "low", but it is by no means the highest in the world.

Although on average the temperature at sea level is hottest at the equator, the absolute maximum temperatures occur, due to lower cloud cover, in the subtropical arid belts on the eastern side of the subtropical anticyclones. Under the descending air of the eastern side of the subtropical anticyclones, precipitation is much lower than under the Intertropical Convergence Zone at the equator. (Both, unlike temperate mountains, decline above around 2000 metres above sea level as convection is minimal in cooler air above the trade winds).

The result is that precipitation at any altitude is much higher at the equator than near the Tropic of Cancer or Tropic of Capricorn. Moreover, with the cooler temperatures and higher humidity at the equator less snow is melted or sublimes in the thin air.

Consequently, snow lines at the equator average around 4,600 metres or 15,000 feet. By contrast, near the Tropics even in the humid Himalayas around Mount Everest they average around 5,500 metres or 18,000 feet and in the dry Desert Andes near Llullaillaco on the Tropic of Capricorn the snow line stands as high as 6,600 metres or 21,600 feet! This is why the most difficult place to grow glaciers is near the Tropics rather than at the equator: several glaciers exist near the equator but no glaciers exist within 450 kilometres of either Tropic.

Answer 4

Ecuador has snow because there are high mountians there.