See also:

• AMBATO
• AMBATO, or ASIENTO DE AMBATO

AMBATO, or See also:

• ASIENTO, or ASSIENTO (from the verb asentar, to place, or establish)

ASIENTO DE AMBATO  , an inland See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• ECUADOR (officially La Republica del Ecuador)

Ecuador, See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of Tunguragua, 8o m . S. of See also:

• QUITO

Quito by the See also:

• HIGHWAY

highway, and near the See also:

• NORTHERN

northern See also:

• FOOT

foot of Chimborazo . Pop . (est.) 1o,000 . The town stands in a bowl-like depression, 86o6 ft. above See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea-level, surrounded by steep, sandy, barren mountains, and has an equable See also:

• CLIMATE

climate, which has been likened to a perpetual autumn . The immediate environs are very fertile and produce a See also:

• GREAT

great variety of fruits, including many of the temperate See also:

• ZONE (Gr. 'WV77, a girdle, from 'wvvLvay to gird)

zone, but the surrounding See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country is arid and sterile, producing scanty crops of See also:

• BARLEY (Hordeum sativum)

barley, See also:

• INDIAN

Indian See also:

• CORN (a common Teutonic word; cf. Lat. granum, seed, grain)
• CORN (fromm Lat. corms, horn)

corn and See also:

• PEASE, EDWARD (1767–1858)

pease . The See also:

• COCHINEAL

cochineal See also:

• INSECT

insect is found on the See also:

• CACTUS

cactus which grows in abundance in the vicinity, and the town is known throughout Ecuador for its manufacture of boots and shoes, and for a cordage made from cabuya, the fibre of the See also:

• AGAVE

agave plant . See also:

• AMBATO
• AMBATO, or ASIENTO DE AMBATO

Ambato was destroyed by an eruption of See also:

• COTOPAXI

Cotopaxi in 1698, and has been badly damaged two or three times by earthquakes .