Chimbo
Chimbo is a town in, and the seat of Chimbo Canton, Bolívar Province in Ecuador. The closest cities to Chimbo are Guaranda and San Miguel. Chimbo was once known as Benalcazar because the Spanish conquistador Sebastián de Belalcázar stayed there for several days before departing to Quito to fight the colonizers.Photo: Pablitoan22, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Locality
- Description: place in Bolívar Province, Ecuador
- Also known as: “San Jose De Chimbo”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Santiago de Bolivar and San Miguel.
Santiago de Bolivar
Photo: KleberAranda, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Santiago de Bolivar, also just known as simply Santiago for the locals and residents of Ecuador, it is a very nice relaxed colonial town located in Bolivar in the Central Andes of Ecuador.
San Miguel
Town
San Miguel is a town in the Bolívar Province, Ecuador. It is the seat of the San Miguel Canton. San Miguel is situated 6 km southwest of Chimbo.
Chimbo
- Categories: town and parroquia urbana of Ecuador
- Location: Chimbo Canton, Bolívar, Ecuador, South America
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Spanish—“Chimbo” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Chimbo”
- Catalan: “Chimbo”
- Dutch: “Chimbo”
- French: “Chimbo”
- Galician: “Chimbo”
- German: “Chimbo”
- German: “San José de Chimbo”
- Italian: “Chimbo”
- Polish: “Chimbo”
- Portuguese: “Chimbo”
- Quechua: “Chimbo”
- Quechua: “Chimpu llaqta”
- Spanish: “Chimbo”
- Spanish: “San Jose de Chimbo”
- Spanish: “San José de Chimbo”
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