Azogues

Azogues, is an Ecuadorian metropolis; cantonal head of the Azogues canton and capital of the province of Cañar, as well as the second one biggest and most populated town of the same. It is positioned in the center-south of the Inter-Andean Region of Ecuador, inside the basin of the Paute River, crossed by using the Burgay River, at an altitude of 2518 meters above sea stage and with an Andean climate of 16 ° C on average. Inhabited the tribe of the Peleusis Indians, one of the many cultures that, in step with Father Juan de Velasco, changed into a part of the fantastic Canari country.

There are those who argue that the town became based in instances of conquest with the aid of the indigenous Tenemaza and Carchipulla, as an annex of the Taday parish, attached to the San Blas de Cuenca parish, which turned into acknowledged for many years underneath the name of El Azogue: It is also acknowledged that during 1562 there has been already a parish priest, Fray Gaspar Gallegos, who baptized it with his full call.