Guayllabamba ( Kichwa : Wayllapampa , "green plain") is a small agricultural town (administratively, a rural parish of the canton of Quito ) located 29 kilometers northeast of the city of Quito in northern Ecuador . In the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 12,227. The elevation is 2,142 metres (7,028 ft) above sea level.
3-529: The Zoológico de Quito (Quito Zoo), originally in the Benalcázar parish of Quito, was moved in 1997 to the southwest of the parish. The zoo is the largest in Ecuador. Guayllabamba is located on Ecuador Highway 28B , which connects it with Quito and Cayambe . 0°03′33″S 78°20′29″W / 0.059052°S 78.341446°W / -0.059052; -78.341446 This Ecuador location article
6-537: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Cayambe, Ecuador Cayambe is an agricultural service city (population 44,559 at the last census on October 1, 2022) 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
9-740: Is the third-largest city in Pichincha Province. 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
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