Cayambe

Cayambe is an agricultural provider metropolis population 39,028 on the closing census on November 28, 2010 in highland Ecuador. It lies on the foot of the Cayambe volcano. While the metropolis is in particular peopled through mestizos, the encircling rural population is on the whole composed of indigenous individuals who are in particular involved in subsistence agriculture, dairy farming and procurement of lumber. It's the 1/3 biggest city in Pichincha Province. Cayambe's indigenous people of today are descendants of the pre-Inca Kayambi humans. The Kayambi have been resistant to Inca expansion and had been only definitively conquered by way of Huayna Capac the eleventh Sapa Inca of the Inca Empire after a bloody 20-12 months conflict.

At that time, the Kayambi human beings followed the Kichwa language, a dialect of the Quechua own family of languages. Not lengthy afterwards, within the sixteenth century, the first Spanish conquistadores arrived in the vicinity. Kichwa survives in a number of the hamlets today, even as in others it has given manner to Spanish.