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Chimborazo from southwest
Mount Chimborazo

Mount Chimborazo is a mountain and an extinct volcano in Ecuador. Its last eruption is thought to have been over a thousand years ago.

The top of Mount Chimborazo is the farthest away from the centre of the Earth as is possible to get on land. Although Mount Everest is higher, Chimborazo is farther from Earth's center due to the fact that the earth bulges at the equator.

Images for kids

  • Ecuador Chimborazo 5923

    Chimborazo from the south

  • Tephra Layers at Chimborazo Volcano in Ecuador

    Layers of pyroclastic rock deposited during eruptions of Chimborazo

  • 1839 Black - Hall Map of the Mountains & Plants of America - Geographicus - AmericaMts2-black-1839

    Map from 1839 of the distribution of plants according to elevation in the Americas

  • Humboldt-Bonpland Chimborazo

    Alexander von Humboldt and his fellow scientist Aimé Bonpland at the foot of the Chimborazo volcano, painting by Friedrich Georg Weitsch (1810)

  • Chimborazo+sketch

    Sketch of Chimborazo huts, main summits, and routes

  • Vicuña - Chimborazo, Ecuador

    Vicuña, one of two wild South American camelids.

  • Vista del Volcán Chimborazo desde Riobamba

    Chimborazo seen from Riobamba.

  • Volcán Chimborazo, "El Taita Chimborazo"

    Chimborazo volcano.

  • Chimborazofromwest

    Chimborazo from the west.

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Volcán Chimborazo para niños

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