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The inactive stratovolcano Chimborazo (pronounced [tʃimboˈɾaso]) 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 can refer to: Chimborazo (volcano), Ecuador; Chimborazo Province, Ecuador; Battle of Chimborazo, c. 1531, during civil war in Incan Empire
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Chimborazo, snowcapped peak, central Ecuador, in the Andes. An inactive volcano, it 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. The name, from a Quechua term, means “mountain of snow”.