Chimborazo, a volcano in the region of…

Chimborazo, a volcano in the region of present Ecuador, erupts in 550.

With an elevation of six thousand two hundred and sixty-eight meters, Chimborazo is the highest mountain in Ecuador and the Andes north of Peru; it is higher than any more northerly summit in the Americas.

The summit of Mount Everest reaches a higher elevation above sea level, but the summit of Chimborazo is widely reported to be the farthest point on the surface from Earth's center, with Huascarán a very close second.

The summit of the Chimborazo is the fixed point on Earth which has the utmost distance from the center—because of the oblate spheroid shape of the planet Earth which is "thicker" around the Equator than measured around the poles.