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IBARRA - LoveToKnow Article on IBARRA (312 words) |
 | N.N.E. of Quito, on a small fertile plain at the northern foot of Imbabura volcano, 7300 ft. above sealevel. |
| It stands on the left bank of the Tahuando, a small stream whose waters flow\n~th and west to the Pacific through the Mira, and is separated from the higher plateau of Quito by an elevated transverse ridge of which the Imbabura and Mojanda volcanoes form a part. |
| it has suffered from the eruptions of Imbabura, and more severely from earthquakes, that of 1859 causing great damage to its public buildings, and the greater one of the 16th of August 1868 almost completely destroyed the town and killed a large number of its inhabitants. |
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