Ecuador
Andean Highlands
Chimborazo Province

Chimborazo

Chimborazo is an inactive volcano and the highest mountain in at just about 6,263 m. It is a popular hiking and mountain climbing location.
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  • Type: Volcano with an elevation of 6,267 metres
  • Description: volcano and highest mountain in Ecuador
  • Also known as: “Cerro Chimborazo”, “Esmeralda”, “Mount Chimborazo”, and “Nevado Chimborazo”

Chimborazo

Latitude
-1.4681° or 1° 28′ 5″ south
Longitude
-78.8156° or 78° 48′ 56″ west
Elevation
6,267 metres (20,561 feet)
Open location code
67C3G5JM+QQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 58959434
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Open­Street­Map feature
sport=­climbing
Geo­Names ID
3659238
Wiki­data ID
Q14081
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Chimborazo” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Chimborazo”
  • Albanian: “Chimborazo”
  • Amharic: “ቺምቦራዞ”
  • Arabic: “تشيمبورازو”
  • Armenian: “Չիմբորասո”
  • Asturian: “Volcán Chimborazo”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çimbaroso vulkanı”
  • Basque: “Chimborazo”
  • Belarusian: “Вулкан Чымбараса”
  • Belarusian: “Чымбараса”
  • Bengali: “চিম্বোরাজো”
  • Bhojpuri: “चिंबोराजो”
  • Bosnian: “Chimborazo”
  • Breton: “Chimborazo”
  • Bulgarian: “Чимборасо”
  • Catalan: “Chimborazo”
  • Catalan: “volcà Chimborazo”
  • Cebuano: “Chimborazo”
  • Central Bikol: “Chimborazo”
  • Chinese: “欽博拉索山”
  • Chinese: “钦博拉索山”
  • Croatian: “Chimborazo”
  • Czech: “Chimborazo”
  • Dutch: “Chimborazo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل تشيمبورازو”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉimborazo”
  • Esperanto: “Monto Ĉimborazo”
  • Estonian: “Chimborazo”
  • Finnish: “Chimborazo”
  • French: “Chimborazo”
  • Galician: “Chimborazo”
  • Galician: “Monte Chimborazo”
  • Galician: “Volcan Chimborazo”
  • Galician: “Volcán Chimborazo”
  • Georgian: “ჩიმბორასო”
  • German: “Chimborazo”
  • German: “Tschimborasso”
  • Greek: “Τσιμποράζο”
  • Greek: “Τσιμποράσο”
  • Haitian: “Chimborazo”
  • Hebrew: “צ’ימבורסו”
  • Hebrew: “צימבורסו”
  • Hindi: “चिम्बरोजी”
  • Hungarian: “Chimborazo”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Chimborazo”
  • Italian: “Chimborazo”
  • Japanese: “チンボラソ”
  • Javanese: “Gunung Chimborazo”
  • Kazakh: “Чимборасо”
  • Kazakh: “Чимбора́со”
  • Korean: “침보라소 산”
  • Korean: “침보라소산”
  • Ladin: “Chimborazo”
  • Latin: “Chimborazo”
  • Latin: “Mons Chimborazo”
  • Latvian: “Čimboraso”
  • Lithuanian: “Čimborasas”
  • Lombard: “Chimborazo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Chimborazo”
  • Macedonian: “Чимборазо”
  • Macedonian: “Чимборасо”
  • Malay: “Gunung Chimborazo”
  • Malayalam: “ചിംബോറാസോ അഗ്നിപർവതം”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chimborazo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chimborazo”
  • Norwegian: “Chimborazo”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Chimborazo”
  • Ossetian: “Чимборасо”
  • Persian: “چیمبورازو”
  • Polish: “Chimborazo”
  • Portuguese: “Chimboraço”
  • Portuguese: “Chimborazo”
  • Portuguese: “Vulcão Chimborazo”
  • Quechua: “Chimpurasu”
  • Quechua: “Chinpurakhu”
  • Romanian: “Chimborazo”
  • Romanian: “Muntele Chimborazo”
  • Russian: “Чимборасо”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Chimborazo”
  • Scots: “Chimborazo”
  • Serbian: “Чимборазо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chimborazo”
  • Slovak: “Chimborazo”
  • Slovenian: “Chimborazo”
  • Slovenian: “Čimboraso”
  • Spanish: “Chimborazo”
  • Spanish: “Volcan Chimborazo”
  • Spanish: “Volcán Chimborazo”
  • Swahili: “Chimborazo”
  • Swedish: “Chimborazo”
  • Swiss German: “Chimborazo”
  • Tamil: “சிம்போரசோ”
  • Thai: “ชิมโบราโซ”
  • Thai: “ภูเขาไฟชิมโบราโซ”
  • Thai: “ยอดเขาชิมโบราโซ”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Chimborazo”
  • Turkish: “Chimborazo”
  • Turkish: “Çimbaroso”
  • Ukrainian: “Чимборасо”
  • Ukrainian: “Чімборасо”
  • Venetian: “Chimborazo”
  • Vietnamese: “Chimborazo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chimborazo”
  • Welsh: “Chimborazo”
  • Wu Chinese: “钦博拉索山”
  • Yiddish: “טשימבאראזא”
  • Yue Chinese: “欽博拉索山”
  • “Chimborazo”
  • “चिंबोराजो”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Chimborazo”. Photo: Dick Culbert, CC BY 2.0.