Latacunga

Latacunga is a plateau city of Ecuador, capital of the Cotopaxi Province, 89 km south of Quito, close to the confluence of the Alaquez and Cutuchi rivers to form the Patate, the headstream of the Pastaza. At the time of census 2010 Latacunga had 98,355 inhabitants, largely mestizo and indigenous. Latacunga took its independence from Spain on November eleven, 1820. Latacunga is an hour and half south from Quito at the Pan-American Highway.

It turned into formerly additionally at the vintage avenue from Quito to Guayaquil, and has a railway station among those cities."La Fiesta de los angeles Mama Negra" is a well known conventional competition in Latacunga. It is a combination of indigenous, Spanish and African influences. It takes location two times a yr. The first one turned into prepared in September with the aid of the humans from the markets "La Merced y Del Salto" in honor of the "Virgen de los angeles Merced". The Virgin is commemorated due to the fact she stopped the Cotopaxi Volcano eruption in 1742. That is the cause why Latacunga's population calls her “Abogada y patrona del volcan” meaning propose and purchaser of the volcano.