Pambamarca
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Pambamarca or Pimbamarca is an eroded stratovolcano in the Central Cordillera of the northern Ecuadorian Andes in Pichincha Province. it is 25 miles northeast of Quito. The summit is at an elevation o
Illustration from Jorge Juan's and Antonio de Ulloa's, Voyage to South America (1748), depicting three separate scenes: (1) on the left, an erupting volcano; (2) on the upper right, optical glories surrounded by a fog bow; and (3) on the lower right, arcs of white light near a mountaintop
Antonio de Ulloa
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Antonio de Ulloa y de la Torre-Guiral was a Spanish Navy officer. He spent much of his career in the Americas, where he carried out important scientific work that earned him a reputation as one of the
Pambamarca
…provided security to Quito fortress and other forts such as Jambimachi, Pambamarca, Pachha, Campana, Olachan Tablarumi, Achupallas, Guachala and Bravo. Antonio de Ulloa and another member of the French Geodesic Mission to the Equator, Pierre Bouguer, reported that while walking near the summit of the Pambamarca mountain…
Portrait by Andrés Cortés, 1856
Birthplace of Jorge Juan in the city of Seville, located on the corner of Alfonso XII with Admiral Ulloa (formerly Clavel) streets.
Portrait by unknown artist, Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation