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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 352 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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RIOBAMBA or ROYABAMBA, a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

ECUADOR (officially La Republica del Ecuador)

Ecuador, See also:

capital of the See also:

province of Chimborazo, on the railway between See also:

GUAYAQUIL, or SANTIAGO DE GUAYAQUIL

Guayaquil and See also:

QUITO

Quito, about 85.m. E.N.E. of the former. Pop. (1900, estimate) 12,000: It stands in a barren, sandy See also:

basin of the See also:

GREAT

great central See also:

plateau, drained by the Chambo, a tributary of the Pastaza, on the old road See also:

RUNNING

running southward from Quito into See also:

Peru, 9039 ft. above See also:

sea-level, and in full view of the imposing heights of Chimborazo, Carahuairazo (Carguairazo), Tunguragua and See also:

ALTAR (Lat. altare, from alias, high; some ancient etymological guesses are recorded by St Isidore of Seville in Etymologiae xv. 4)

Altar. Though 300 ft. See also:

LOWER

lower than Quito, its See also:

CLIMATE

climate is considerably colder, owing, perhaps, to its more exposed situation and the vicinity of so many See also:

SNOW (in O. Eng. sndw; a common Indo-European word; cf. in Teutonic languages, Ger. Schnee, Du. sneeuw; in Slavonic snieg', Lith. snegas; Gr. vi4a, Lat. nix, nivis, whence the Romanic forms, Ital. neve, Fr. neige, &c.; Ir. and Gael. sneachd; the original

snow-clad peaks. It is a town of unusually wide streets and one-storeyed See also:

ADOBE (pronounced a-db-be; also corrupted to dobie; from the Span. adobar, to plaster, traceable through Arabic to an Egyptian hieroglyph meaning " brick ")

adobe houses, being so laid out and built because of earthquakes. It has very little importance as a commercial or See also:

INDUSTRIAL

industrial centre, having only a small See also:

trade and a few unimportant See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries.' The See also:

PRESENT

present town See also:

DATES

dates from 1997, when the great See also:

EARTHQUAKE

earthquake of that See also:

YEAR

year destroyed the old town then situated 12 m. W., near the existing See also:

VILLAGE

village of Cajabamba. The ruins of the old town indicate that it was much larger and finer than its successor.

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