Riobamba

Riobamba is a city in the Andean highlands of . It is known locally as the "Sultan of the Andes". Riobamba sits in a valley surrounded by several large hills and snowcapped mountains.
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  • Type: City with 170,000 residents
  • Description: city in Ecuador, capital of the Chimborazo Province
  • Also known as: “San Pedro de Riobamba” and “ريوبامبا (الإكوادور)”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Estadio Olímpico de Ibarra and Sacred Heart Basilica (Riobamba).

Stadium
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is a multi-use in , .

Church
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is a church.

Riobamba

Latitude
-1.6733° or 1° 40′ 24″ south
Longitude
-78.6482° or 78° 38′ 54″ west
Population
170,000
Elevation
2,777 metres (9,111 feet)
UN/LOCODE
EC RBA
Open location code
67C389G2+MP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 249597119
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3652350
Wiki­data ID
Q478675
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Riobamba” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ሪዮባምባ”
  • Arabic: “ريوبامبا”
  • Armenian: “Ռիոբամբա”
  • Arpitan: “Riobamba”
  • Asturian: “Riobamba”
  • Azerbaijani: “Riobamba”
  • Basque: “Riobamba”
  • Belarusian: “Рыёбамба”
  • Bengali: “রিওবাম্বা”
  • Bosnian: “Riobamba”
  • Catalan: “Riobamba”
  • Cebuano: “Riobamba”
  • Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Riobamba”
  • Chinese: “里奧班巴”
  • Chuvash: “Риобамба”
  • Croatian: “Riobamba”
  • Czech: “Riobamba”
  • Danish: “Riobamba”
  • Dutch: “Riobamba”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ريوبامبا”
  • Esperanto: “Riobambo”
  • Finnish: “Riobamba”
  • French: “Riobamba”
  • Galician: “Riobamba”
  • Georgian: “რიობამბა”
  • German: “Riobamba”
  • Greek: “Ριομπάμπα”
  • Gujarati: “રિયોબામ્બા”
  • Hausa: “Riobamba”
  • Hebrew: “ריובמבה”
  • Hindi: “रिओबांबा”
  • Hindi: “रियोबाम्बा”
  • Hungarian: “Riobamba”
  • Indonesian: “Riobamba”
  • Irish: “Riobamba”
  • Italian: “Riobamba”
  • Japanese: “リオバンバ”
  • Javanese: “Riobamba”
  • Kannada: “ರಿಯೋಬಂಬಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Риобамба”
  • Kirghiz: “Риобамба”
  • Korean: “리오밤바”
  • Latvian: “Riobamba”
  • Lithuanian: “Riobamba”
  • Malay: “Riobamba”
  • Marathi: “रिओबाम्बा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Riobamba”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Riobamba”
  • Norwegian: “Riobamba”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Riobamba”
  • Oromo: “Riobamba”
  • Panjabi: “ਰਿਓਬਾਂਬਾ”
  • Persian: “ریوبامبا”
  • Polish: “Riobamba”
  • Portuguese: “Riobamba”
  • Pushto: “ریوبامبا”
  • Quechua: “Rispampa”
  • Romanian: “Riobamba”
  • Russian: “Риобамба”
  • Serbian: “Риобамба”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Riobamba”
  • Silesian: “Riobamba”
  • Sinhala: “රියෝබම්බා, ඉක්වදෝරය”
  • Sinhala: “රියෝබම්බා”
  • Slovak: “Riobamba”
  • Slovenian: “Riobamba”
  • Somali: “Riobamba”
  • Spanish: “Riobamba”
  • Swahili: “Riobamba”
  • Swedish: “Riobamba”
  • Tajik: “Риобамба”
  • Tamil: “ரியோபாம்பா”
  • Tatar: “Riobamba”
  • Tatar: “Риобамба”
  • Telugu: “రియోబాంబ”
  • Thai: “ริโอบัมบา”
  • Thai: “รีโอบัมบา”
  • Turkish: “Riobamba”
  • Ukrainian: “Ріобамба”
  • Urdu: “ریوبامبا”
  • Uzbek: “Riobamba”
  • Vietnamese: “Riobamba”
  • Volapük: “Riobamba”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Riobamba”
  • Western Panjabi: “ریؤبامبا”
  • Wu Chinese: “里奥班巴”
  • “Riobamba”

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Parque Loma de Quito and Santa Cruz.

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