Pichincha

From one of them, called Pichincha, which looked quite close through the clear atmosphere of that region, I remember seeing flames of fire and dark masses of smoke, intermingled with dust and ashes, spouting forth.

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[* I have measured the summit of Pichincha, that is the small mountain covered with ashes above the Llano del Vulcan, to the north of Alto de Chuquira.

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(* I have measured the summit of Pichincha, that is the small mountain covered with ashes above the Llano del Vulcan, to the north of Alto de Chuquira.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

Ramiro Aguilar, the journalists' lawyer, said in an interview that the ruling will be appealed before the provincial Court of Pichincha.

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Soon, we're on the roof, and Señor Rivas explains how the spine of Quito is the Pichincha volcano which erupted spectacularly in 1999 and covered the city in ash, and how the churches of Quito are aligned.

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One eager buyer has been Banco Pichincha, an Ecuadorean bank that has set up in Spain.

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A lump the size of Pichincha volcano melts in my throat.

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Pichincha has denied it will go after those who return home, but Ecuador's parliament looks set to act anyway.

Immigrant cleaner leads revolt against Spanish mortgage trap 2011

We sat watching the fires burn through those poor neighborhoods on Pichincha and she brought me home.

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We were looking out at the peak of Pichincha, Quito's volcano, where lines of dry fire burned through the trees of the poor neighborhoods that creep up its western slopes.

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