Chimborazo Province
Appearance
Chimborazo | |
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Province | |
Province o Chimborazo | |
Chimborazo Province in Ecuador | |
Cantons o Chimborazo Province | |
Kintra | Ecuador |
Legal establishment | 25 Juin 1826 |
Caipital | Riobamba |
Cantons | List of cantons
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Govrenment | |
• Provincial Prefect | Mariano Curicama (Pachakutik) |
Area | |
• Total | 6471 km2 (2,498 sq mi) |
Population (2010) | |
• Total | 365,965 |
• Density | 57/km2 (150/sq mi) |
• Population 2001 | 295409 |
Time zone | UTC-5 (ECT) |
Website | www.chimborazo.gov.ec |
Chimborazo is a province in Ecuador, locatit in the central Ecuadorian Andes, containin a section o Sangay Naitional Pairk. The caipital is Riobamba. The province contains Chimborazo (6,267 m), Ecuador's heichest muntain.
Cantons
[eedit | eedit soorce]The province is dividit intae 10 cantons. The follaein table leets each wi its population as o the 2001 census, its aurie in square kilometres (km²), an the name o the canton seat or caipital.[1]
Canton | Pop. (2001) | Aurie (km²) | Seat/Caipital |
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Alausí | 42,823 | 1,644 | Alausí |
Chambo | 10,541 | 163 | Chambo |
Chunchi | 12,474 | 273 | Chunchi |
Colta | 44,701 | 829 | Cajabamba |
Cumandá | 9,395 | 159 | Cumandá |
Guamote | 35,210 | 1,216 | Guamote |
Guano | 37,888 | 460 | Guano |
Pallatanga | 10,800 | 377 | Pallatanga |
Penipe | 6,485 | 370 | Penipe |
Riobamba | 193,315 | 980 | Riobamba |
See an aw
[eedit | eedit soorce]References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Cantons of Ecuador. Statoids.com. Retrieved 4 November 2009.
Freemit airtins
[eedit | eedit soorce]- (in Spaingie) Gobierno de la Provincia de Chimborazo Archived 2009-10-08 at the Wayback Machine, offeecial wabsteid
- (in Spaingie) Radio Mundial Riobamba
- Chimborazo aurie map