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The inactive stratovolcano Chimborazo (pronounced [tʃimboˈraso]) is Ecuador's highest summit. Its last eruption is thought to have occurred some time in the first millennium AD.
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Chimborazo is a province in Ecuador, located in the central Ecuadorian Andes, containing a section of Sangay National Park. The capital is Riobamba.
Chimborazo, Ecuador
Chimborazo, Ecuador Location: 1.46S 78.82W Chimborazo (1.6S 78.6W) is located in the Inter-Andean Graben, a north-northeast trend structural depression that separates the Western ...

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Chimborazo, snowcapped peak in central Ecuador, in the Andes Mountains. An inactive volcano, Chimborazo has an elevation of 6,310 m (20,702 ft) and is the highest point in Ecuador. The German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt explored it in 1802; in 1880 the English mountain climber Edward Whymper successfully scaled the peak.

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