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In the 1690s, four epidemics hit this city’s corregimiento (“kor-RAY-heem-YEN-toh”). The pucará (“poo-kah-RAH”) of Rumicucho predated this city, where colonists like Juan de Velasco mythologized Queen Quilago (“kee-LAH-go”) of Cochasquí (“ko-chah-SKEE”) and Paccha Duchicela. Eugenio Espejo’s (“yoo-HEN-ee-oh ess-PAY-ho’s”) New Lucian satirized this city’s real audiencia (“RAY-ahl ow-dee-EN-see-ah”), which, like Charcas’s, fell in 1809 to an anti-Bourbon criollo (“cree-OH-yo”) junta. Repartamiento (-5[1])(“ray-par-tahm-YEN-toh”) of Otavalo people staffed this city’s obraje (“oh-BRAH-hay”) textile mills, whose sheep grazed on Riobamba’s (-5[1])páramo. (10[2])This modern capital city names the baroque art school (-5[1])of El (-5[1])San Francisco’s polychrome Virgin. After Huayna (-5[1])Cápac (10[1])died in this northernmost (-5[1])city (10[1]-5[1])of Chinchay Suyu, (10[1])Huáscar (10[1])fought Atahualpa. Two years before (-5[1])Ayacucho, (10[1])Antonio (10[1])José de Sucre took this capital city after a (-5[1])battle on a nearby volcano. (10[2]-5[1])For 10 points, Pichincha overlooks what Andean (10[1])capital north of (10[1])Cuenca and Guayaquil? (10[2])■END■ (10[4]0[1])

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