Cayambe, Pichincha - Ecuador

Published: May 17th 2006South America » Ecuador
January 2nd 1980

Cayambe

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Cayambe, Pichincha - Ecuador

February 10, 1979

• City official name :Cayambe
  
• Founded date :?
  
• Location :Pichincha Province
  
• Elavation :9,250 ft (2,800 m)
  
• Area :Approximately ? square miles (? km²).
  
• Facts :Cayambe lies at the foot of the Cayambe volcano. Population about 30,473. Cayambe's indigenous people of today are descendants of the pre-Inca Kayambi people. The Kayambi were resistant to Inca expansion and were only definitively conquered by Inca Huayna Capac after a bloody 20-year war. Not long afterwards, in the 16th century, the first Spanish conquerors arrived in the region. The Kayambi people adopted the Quichua language (sometimes also spelled Kichwa), a dialect of the Quechua language. Quichua survives in some of the hamlets today, while in others it has given way to Spanish.