Bitcoin private key, location on ECC curve

Bitcoin private key, location on ECC curve

In the ECDSA algorithm, the Bitcoin private key is supposedly a point on the graph (or is it?). But the private key is a single integer, and not x,y coordinates. Is the integer, by itself, the x value or the y value? If it is x, then what is y? If it is y, then what is x?

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