Pimampiro, also Pimampiru, is the seat of
Pimampiro Canton
Pimampiro Canton is a canton of Ecuador, located in Imbabura Province. Its population in the 2001 census was 12,951 and 12,970 in the 2010 census.
Pimampiro is located in the Andes of northern Ecuador. Its capital is the town of Pimampiro whic ...
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Imbabura Province
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...
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Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...
. The city is located at an elevation of . It had a population of 8,192 in the 2001
census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...
and 9,077 in 2010.
The city of Pimampiro is located about east of
Ibarra the capital city of Imbabura province.
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References
Populated places in Imbabura Province
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