Cayambe may refer to the Caranqui-name Ecuadorian stratovolcano of Cayambe in the Central Cordillera of the Ecuadorian Andes. It may also refer to the city which was named after the volcano, Cayambe, which is the seat of a canton which in turn is named after the city, Cayambe. View of Mount Rainier, a stratovolcano. ... Cayambe is the name of a volcano located in the central branch of the Ecuadorian Andes, in Pichincha province some 70 km north of Quito. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Cayambe is an agricultural service town (pop. ... Cayambe is a canton in the northeast of the province of Pichincha, in northern Ecuador, South America. ...

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History: In 1880 the British explorer Edward Whymper spent 6 month in 1880 around "the Great Andes of The Equator" in Ecuador summiting (with the Italian brothers Jean-Antoine and Louis Carrel) 9 of the highest peaks as follows: Chimborazo (4 Jan and 3 July - measured as 20.498 feet), Corazon (2 Feb - measured as 15.871 feet), Cotopaxi (18-19 Feb - measured as 19.613), Antisana (10 Mar - measured as 19.335 feet), Pichincha (23 Mar - measured as 15.918 feet), Cayambe (4 Apr - measured as 19.186), Sara-urcu (17 Apr - measured as 15.502 feet), Cotocachi (24 Apr - measured as 16.301 feet) and Carihuairazo (29 Jun - measured as 16.515 feet). Many of these and others had previously been summited by Alexander von Humboldt and H. Bonssingault - most noteably Chinborazo (highest mountain in South America - and mountainpeak farthest of all from the center of the earth due to the equatorial bulge) on 9 Jun 1802 and 16 Dec 1831 respectively.