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Atahualpa, born in Quito according to Juan de Velasco and Garcilaso de la Vega, [22] [23] and in Cusco according to the most reliable chronicles, [24] [25] [26] [21] [27] was the favorite son of Huayna Capac and was very popular among the Inca armies stationed in the north. The brothers battled for six years, killing many men and weakening the ...
Riobamba Canton is one of ten cantons of the Chimborazo Province in Ecuador. Its population at the 2010 census was 225,741. [ 2 ] Its capital is the town of Riobamba .
The Riobamba Canton was the main area of fighting in the region. During the rebellion, whites and mestizos were expelled from Punín. Despite some initial successes, the movement ultimately failed. Many of the Puruhá received amnesty from the Gabriel García Moreno government. A few leaders, including Daquilema, were executed.
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Isabel Godin des Odonais née Gramesón [1] was the daughter of Don Pedro Gramesón y Bruno, an administrator in Riobamba, a Spanish colonial city in the Viceroy of Peru.She was well-educated and spoke fluent Spanish, French, and Quechua, and understood the use of quipus, the Incan method of communicating information using colored strings and knots.
Cajabamba (Villa la Unión) is a location in the Chimborazo Province, Ecuador.It is the seat of the Colta Canton.. The village of Cajabamba (Kichwa: Kashapampa, "thorn plain") is situated in a fertile arable valley in Colta Canton, Chimborazo Province (Chimborazo = "snows on the other side").
Leonidas Eduardo Proaño Villalba (1910–1988) was an Ecuadorian prelate and theologian who was born in San Antonio de Ibarra and died in Quito. He served as the bishop of Riobamba from 1954 to 1985. He was a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize and is considered one of the most important figures in Ecuadorian liberation theology. [1]
Earthquakes are common in Ecuador. Near the Nazca subduction zone the recorded history of interplate earthquakes spans 80 years. [3] At the time it struck the 1949 Ambato earthquake was the second-worst earthquake in Ecuador's modern history topped only by the 1797 Riobamba earthquake, [4] and the most devastating earthquake in the Western Hemisphere since the 1944 San Juan earthquake.