Cayambe is a canton in the northeast of the province of Pichincha, in northern Ecuador, South America. 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 river basin and is surrounded by volcanoes. A canton is a territorial subdivision of a country, e. ... Pichincha is a province in Ecuador. ... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... 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. ... View of Mount Rainier, a stratovolcano. ... For the term related to television programmes, see watershed (television). ...

The seat of the canton, also named after the volcano, is Cayambe. The economy of the canton is basically agricultural, based on raising cattle and producing dairy products and growing flowers for export in greenhouses, and also cereals for local consumption. The Swiss food company Nestlé and the Cayambean company Miraflores have dairy-product factories in the city of Cayambe. Cayambe is an agricultural service town (pop. ... Binomial name Bos taurus Linnaeus, 1758 Cattle (called simply cows in vernacular usage) are domesticated ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae. ... Dairy products are generally defined as foodstuffs produced from milk. ... Wildflowers A flower is the reproductive structure of those plants classified as angiosperms (flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). ... A greenhouse in Saint Paul, Minnesota. ... Cereal crops are mostly grasses cultivated for their edible seeds (actually a fruit called a caryopsis). ... Nestlé S.A. or Société des Produits Nestlé S.A., headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland, is the worlds biggest food and beverage company. ...