Hambato, or AMBATO, capital of Tunguragua province, Ecuador, in a sheltered amphitheatre on the northern slope of Chimborazo, 8860 feet above the sea. It was twice destroyed—by an eruption of Cotopaxi in 1698, and by an earthquake in 1796, but was speedily rebuilt. Pop. 12,000.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 526
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