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 (“ray-par-tahm-YEN-toh”) of Otavalo people staffed this city’s obraje (“oh-BRAH-hay”) textile mills, whose sheep grazed on Riobamba’s páramo. This modern capital city names the baroque art school of El San Francisco’s polychrome Virgin. After Huayna Cápac died in this northernmost city of Chinchay Suyu, Huáscar fought Atahualpa. Two years before Ayacucho, Antonio José de Sucre took this capital city after a battle on a nearby volcano. For 10 points, Pichincha overlooks what Andean capital north of Cuenca and Guayaquil? ■END■
ANSWER: Quito (“KEE-toh”) [or Kitu; accept Quiteños, Quito School, Escuela Quiteña, Virgin of Quito, La Virgen de Quito, Real Audiencia de Quito, Royal Audience of Quito, Presidency of Quito, Presidencia de Quito, Kingdom of Quito, Reino de Quito, Quitu culture, The New Lucian of Quito, or El nuevo Luciano de Quito] (Bernardo de Legarda sculpted the Virgin.)
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