cayambe
cayambe Lexical Profile
• noun
An agricultural city and canton in the Pichincha province of northern Ecuador, located near the base of the Cayambe volcano and famous for its dairy industry and bizcochos.
A massive, glaciated stratovolcano in the Andes of northern Ecuador, renowned for being the third-highest mountain in the country and the highest point on the Earth's equator.
A member of a pre-Columbian indigenous people who lived in the northern Andes of present-day Ecuador and successfully resisted Inca expansion for several decades.
"The Cayambes formed a strong confederation with the Caranqui to defend their territory against the Inca empire."
• Rhymes for cayambe
Word Origin & Etymology
Derived from the name of the pre-Incan indigenous Cayambe (or Caranqui) people who inhabited the northern highlands of present-day Ecuador.