# Cayambe

- **Country:** Ecuador
- **Coordinates:** 0.025000, -77.988889
- **Type:** Complex volcano
- **Range:** Andes
- **Listing:** Ultra
- **Location:** Pichincha, Ecuador
- **Elevation M:** 5790.
- **First Ascent:** 1880 by Edward Whymper
- **Prominence M:** 2075
- **Easiest Route:** rock/snow climb
- **Last Eruption:** 1785 to 1786
- **Volcanic Zone:** North Volcanic Zone

Cayambe or Volcán Cayambe is a volcano in Ecuador, in the Cordillera Central, a range of the Ecuadorian Andes. It is located in Pichincha Province, some northeast of Quito. It is the third-highest mountain in Ecuador, at an elevation of above sea level.

![Photo of Cayambe](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Cayambe_Vulkan_w.jpg)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayambe_(volcano) (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)