RIOBAMBA  or ROYABAMBA, a 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 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, or BASON (the older form bacin is found in many of the Romanic languages, from the Late Lat. baccinus or bacchinus, probably derived from bacca, a bowl)
• BASIN, THOMAS (1412—1491)

basin of the See also:

• GREAT

great central See also:

• PLATEAU (a French term, older platel, for a flat piece of wood, metal, &c., from plat, flat)
• PLATEAU, JOSEPH ANTOINE FERDINAND (1801-1883)

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
• PERU (apparently from Biru, a small river on the west coast of Colombia, where Pizarro landed)

Peru, 9039 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, 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 (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

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 .