Pichincha
"boiling mountain," the Wallenstein, who intrusted him with a most populous province of Ecuador, emin 1656. He served in the armies of the German emperor, and became one of the distinguished generals in the Thirty a PICHON braces the Quito plateau and its slopes; area 9,030 square miles. The soil is fertile in the W. The province takes its name from the active volcano of Pichincha, 8 miles N. W. of Quito, the chief town. It has five peaks, two of which (15,418 feet) Mr. Whymper ascended in 1880. The enormous crater, nearly a mile across at the top and perhaps 1,500 feet in diameter at the bottom (which is 2,500 feet below), is said to be the deepest in the world. Pop. about 205,000. a