Tulcan

Tulcan is the capital of the province of Carchi in Ecuador and the seat of Tulcan Canton. The population of the town of Tulcán turned into 47,359 within the 2001 cenesus and 53,558 inside the 2010 census. Tulcán is understood for its warm springs, deep wells, 3 acre topiary lawn cemetery, the most complicated topiary inside the New World, created with Cupressus sempervirens by means of Jose Maria Azael Franco in 1936. The metropolis is the best in Ecuador, at 2,950 m above sea stage.

The acknowledged history of the aboriginal occupants of this lands begins with the conquest of the Incas, who in no way definitively conquered this people. The northernmost outpost of the Inca Empire, consistent with Spanish chroniclers, turned into the Rumichaca Bridge, 7 kilometres from Tulcan on the existing-day border with Colombia. The Spanish, looking for gold, became inquisitive about the Quillasinga the name given to the land, meaning Gold Noses. Quillasinga was named without distinction of the ethnic occupants including the Pastos.