Cayambe is an agricultural service city (population 39,028 at the last census on November 28, 2010) in highland Ecuador. It lies at the foot of the Cayambe volcano. While the city is mainly peopled by mestizos, the surrounding rural population is primarily composed of indigenous people who are mainly involved in subsistence agriculture, dairy farming and procurement of lumber. It's the third largest city in Pichincha Province.
Weather: 65°F (18°C), Wind SW at 2 mph (3 km/h), 51% Humidity
Province: Pichincha
History of its people: 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 Huayna Capac (the eleventh Sapa Inca of the Inca Empire) after a bloody 20-year war. At that time, the Kayambi people adopted the Kichwa language, a dialect of the Quechua family of languages. Not long afterwards, in the 16th century, the first Spanish conquistadores arrived in the region. Kichwa survives in some of the hamlets today, while in others it has given way to Spanish.
Points of inteest

It is a globe built of stone that sits on a large cement slab surrounded by a stone circumference.
Known as "La Bola de Guachalá" which is a monument in honor of the equatorial line, it is located on this line that divides the earth into two equal hemispheres: North and South. Whoever arrives at this place can not avoid the temptation to stand on both hemispheres at the same time.

Two Otavalo little girls in Cayambre
Quitsato Sundial, located on the Equator in Cayambe, Ecuador- located exactly on the equator.

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