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 wa
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