It is well known that if a category has all coequalizers and all (small) coproducts then in fact it has all (small) colimits. More important is the proof which shows that every colimit can be built by using coproducts and coequalizers. This implies that if a functor commutes with coproducts and coequalizers, then it must commute with all (small) colimits as well. 



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This question makes sense for general model categories, but I am particularly interested in the usual model structure on spaces. 



Do h-coequalizers and coproducts give all h-colimits?
There is an analogue, but one should replace coequalizers by geometric realizations (homotopy colimits over Δop). If $F : I \to M$ is a diagram in a model category, one has


$$\operatorname{hocolim}\_I F = \operatorname{hocolim}\_{k \in \Delta^{\operatorname{op}}} \coprod\_{i\_0 \to \cdots \to i\_k \in I} F(i\_0).$$


For instance, see section 2 of [<http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~eriehl/hocolimits.pdf>](http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~eriehl/hocolimits.pdf) for the simplicial model category case.


