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.
  • City with about 177,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 2,750 metres (9,040 feet)
  • …is also known as “San Pedro de Riobamba”
  • Description: city in Ecuador, capital of the Chimborazo Province

Places of Interest

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Latitude
-1.6733° or 1° 40′ 24″ south
Longitude
-78.6482° or 78° 38′ 54″ west
UN/LOCODE
EC RBA
Open location code
67C389G2+MP
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
place = city
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Riobamba” goes by many names.
ሪዮባምባAmharic
RiobambaArabic
San Pedro de RiobambaArabic
ريوبامباArabic
ريوبامبا (الإكوادور)Arabic
ՌիոբամբաArmenian
RiobambaArpitan
RiobambaAsturian
RiobambaAzerbaijani
RiobambaBasque
RiobambaBelarusian
San Pedro de RiobambaBelarusian
РыёбамбаBelarusian
RiobambaBengali
San Pedro de RiobambaBengali
রিওবাম্বাBengali
RiobambaBosnian
San Pedro de RiobambaBosnian
RiobambaCatalan
San Pedro de RiobambaCatalan
RiobambaCebuano
San Pedro de RiobambaCebuano
RiobambaChimborazo Highland Quichua
San Pedro de RiobambaChimborazo Highland Quichua
里奧班巴Chinese
РиобамбаChuvash
RiobambaCroatian
San Pedro de RiobambaCroatian
RiobambaCzech
San Pedro de RiobambaCzech
RiobambaDanish
San Pedro de RiobambaDanish
RiobambaDutch
RiobambaEgyptian Arabic
San Pedro de RiobambaEgyptian Arabic
ريوبامباEgyptian Arabic
RiobambaEsperanto
RiobamboEsperanto
San Pedro de RiobambaEsperanto
RiobambaFinnish
San Pedro de RiobambaFinnish
RiobambaGalician
San Pedro de RiobambaGalician
RiobambaGeorgian
San Pedro de RiobambaGeorgian
რიობამბაGeorgian
RiobambaGreek
San Pedro de RiobambaGreek
ΡιομπάμπαGreek
RiobambaGujarati
રિયોબામ્બાGujarati
RiobambaHausa
RiobambaHebrew
San Pedro de RiobambaHebrew
ריובמבהHebrew
RiobambaHindi
San Pedro de RiobambaHindi
रिओबांबाHindi
रियोबाम्बाHindi
RiobambaHungarian
San Pedro de RiobambaHungarian
RiobambaIndonesian
San Pedro de RiobambaIndonesian
RiobambaIrish
San Pedro de RiobambaIrish
RiobambaItalian
San Pedro de RiobambaItalian
RiobambaJapanese
San Pedro de RiobambaJapanese
リオバンバJapanese
RiobambaJavanese
RiobambaKannada
ರಿಯೋಬಂಬಾKannada
RiobambaKazakh
San Pedro de RiobambaKazakh
РиобамбаKazakh
РиобамбаKirghiz
리오밤바Korean
RiobambaLatvian
RiobambaLithuanian
RiobambaMalay
रिओबाम्बाMarathi
RiobambaNorwegian
RiobambaNorwegian Bokmål
RiobambaNorwegian Nynorsk
RiobambaOccitan (post 1500)
RiobambaOromo
ਰਿਓਬਾਂਬਾPanjabi
RiobambaPersian
San Pedro de RiobambaPersian
ریوبامباPersian
RiobambaPolish
ریوبامباPushto
RispampaQuechua
RiobambaRomanian
РиобамбаRussian
РиобамбаSerbian
RiobambaSerbo-Croatian
RiobambaSilesian
රියෝබම්බාSinhala
රියෝබම්බා, ඉක්වදෝරයSinhala
RiobambaSlovak
RiobambaSlovenian
San Pedro de RiobambaSlovenian
RiobambaSomali
RiobambaSwahili
RiobambaSwedish
РиобамбаTajik
ரியோபாம்பாTamil
RiobambaTatar
РиобамбаTatar
రియోబాంబTelugu
รีโอบัมบาThai
RiobambaTurkish
РіобамбаUkrainian
ریوبامباUrdu
RiobambaUzbek
RiobambaVietnamese
RiobambaVolapük
RiobambaWaray (Philippines)
ریؤبامباWestern Panjabi
里奥班巴Wu Chinese

Localities in the Area

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Andean Highlands: Highlights

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