Mount Chimborazo

Monday, April 18, 2011
 Stratovolcano Chimborazo (pronounced [tʃimboraso]) that is inactive is the highest peak of Ecuador. Last eruption is thought to occur in the early millennium AD. High mountain is 6268.2 meters.
Facts about Chimborazo

Not many people know about Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador with an altitude of 6310 meters (20,703 feet), vary slightly from Mount Everest, but have differences in Chimborazo become the highest mountain in the upper center of the earth. This is because the Earth has a round shaft. As the shaft round, Earth is the most extensive in the equator. Chimborazo just one degree south of the equator of the earth and the location is 6384 miles from the center of the Earth, or about 2 miles farther from Earth's center than Mount Everest.


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