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Cayambe
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 (? kmĀ²).
- 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.
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