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province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...

of Pichincha, in northern

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. The canton is named after the Cayambe, a 5,800-meter-high snow-covered stratovolcano in the east of the canton. The main part of the canton occupies the eastern portion of the Pisque

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and is surrounded by volcanoes. The seat of the canton, also named after the volcano, is Cayambe. The economy of the canton is agricultural, based on raising

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and producing dairy products and growing

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s for export in greenhouses, and also cereals for local consumption. The Swiss food company

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and the Cayambean company Miraflores have dairy-product factories in the city of Cayambe. The

Pambamarca Fortress Complex The Pambamarca Fortress Complex consists of the ruins of a large number of pukaras (hilltop forts) and other constructions of the Inca Empire. The fortresses were constructed in the late 15th century by the Incas to overcome the opposition of the ...

, several pre-Columbian

pucara Pukara (Aymara and Quechuan "fortress", Hispanicized spellings ''pucara, pucará'') is a defensive hilltop site or fortification built by the prehispanic and historic inhabitants of the central Andean area (from Ecuador to central Chile and no ...

s (hilltop forts), is located in Cayambe Canton on the slopes of Pambamarca volcano. Here, the Cayambe people defended their territory from the

Inca Empire The Inca Empire (also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire), called ''Tawantinsuyu'' by its subjects, ( Quechua for the "Realm of the Four Parts", "four parts together" ) was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The adm ...

in a war that took place in the late 15th and early 16th century.

Notable people

Dina Farinango was born in Cangahua in Cayambe, in 1993 and went on to be member of the National Assembly.

Notable people

References

See also