Cayambe is an agricultural service town (pop. approx. 120,000) in highland Ecuador. It lies at the foot of the Cayambe volcano. While the town is mainly peopled by mestizos, the surrounding rural population is primarily comprised of indigenous people who are mainly involved in subsistence agriculture, dairying and lumber procurement. 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. ... Mestizo (Portuguese, Mestiço; Canadian French, Métis: from Late Latin mixticius, from Latin mixtus, past participle of miscere, to mix) is a term of Spanish origin used to designate the peoples of mixed European and Amerindian racial strain inhabiting the region spanning the Americas, from the northern prairies in...

Cayambe's indigenous people of today are descendants of the pre-Inca Kayambi people. The Kayambi were resistant to Inca expansion and were only definitively conquered by Inca Huayna Capac after a bloody 20-year war. Not long afterwards, in the 16th century, the first Spanish conquerors arrived in the region. The Kayambi people adopted the Quichua language (sometimes also spelled Kichwa), a dialect of the Quechua language. Quichua survives in some of the hamlets today, while in others it has given way to Spanish. For other meanings of Inca, see Inca (disambiguation). ... Huayna Capac (1493 - 1527) was an Inca emperor. ... (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ... Quechua (Runasimi in Quechua; Runa, People + Simi, speech, literally mouth) is a Native American language of South America. ...

The area hosts numerous flower plantations whose products are destined for the overseas cut-flower market. Toxic inputs and unsafe practices associated with these plantations have damaged the local environment and created health problems among the workers, including forms of cancer. Wildflowers A flower is the reproductive structure of those plants classified as angiosperms (flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). ... When normal cells are damaged or old they undergo apoptosis; cancer cells, however, avoid apoptosis. ...

The town of Cayambe is the seat of the canton of Cayambe. Cayambe is a canton in the northeast of the province of Pichincha, in northern Ecuador, South America. ...