Important Places in Ecuador
Important Places in Ecuador Jerson J. Tiscama, Mishell E. Baquero Universidad TĂŠcnica de Ambato
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Introduction Ecuador is a Beautiful Country, located in South America, is also know as country of the four worlds, here we can find many natural and cultural beauties, in this content we going to talk about two specific places in this wonderful country. Quito and Cuenca its characteristics and importance. QUITO: Through the various streets of Quito, in the south, center and north, in its peripheries and gorges already drowned by landfills, by its colonial and modern monuments lies a thousand-year-old history that still beats softly beneath the brokerage and movement of commerce, Tourism and daily life that characterizes and contrasts this city, capital of the territory that we now call the Republic of Ecuador.[ CITATION Qui12 \l 12298 ]
¨The human being arrived in Quito 12,300 years ago. The oldest vestiges of Quito and Ecuador are found in El Inga. The culture Quitu inhabited during 35 centuries a great territory with its center in the present Quito¨ [ CITATION Qui14 \l 12298 ] By the fifteenth century the Inca people began their expansion towards the north of the Andes, arriving until Quito. There was an arduous struggle between the native peoples of the whole north of the Andes against the Incas. Some authors presume that the beginning of the Inca Civil War was due to want to move the Inca capital to Quito. [ CITATION Del14 \l 12298 ]
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¨The last Inca emperor, Atahualpa, was assassinated by the conquerors on July 26, 1533. The Quito Inca was destroyed in its totality the 6 of December of 1534, was not "stone on stone".¨[ CITATION Lan14 \l 12298 ] In 1663, the Royal Audiencia of Quito was established, an administration that encompassed an extensive territory encompassing the entire Amazon River and present-day Ecuador. Illustrious persons of the colonial era in the Real Audiencia of Quito were the brothers Manuela and Eugenio Espejo, precursors of libertarian ideas. [ CITATION Aya14 \p "7 - 8" \l 12298 ] The Spanish military presence ended in the Battle of Pichincha, on May 24, 1822.After achieving the independence of the Spanish Crown, it was tried to form a great republic called the Great Colombia. Due to different conflicts of interests and powers, Gran Colombia dissolved by 1830 and formed the present Republics of Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador. Quito became the capital of the nascent Republic of Ecuador and since then its history is part of the History of Ecuador. Quito was witness and participant of two magnicides: in 1875, the one of the conservative president Gabriel Garci'a Moreno; And in 1912, the leader of the Liberal Revolution in Ecuador and former President of the Republic, Eloy Alfaro.[ CITATION Ort15 \l 12298 ] The city of Quito began to grow rapidly in population and extension since the mid-twentieth century.
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The tourist industry began to act in Quito from the end of century XX and has gained great importance in this city. In 1978, Quito was declared the First Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. Quito has not stopped being a witness and actor of the History of Ecuador, since the return to democracy have been overthrown three different presidents in this city. Quito remains a cultural, commercial and historical center of Latin America. [ CITATION Ort15 \l 12298 ]
Quito is one of the most important cities in Latin America and the world, due to its great architectural, cultural and historical beauty. Has been awarded and named as the number one city in Latin America to be visited, all thanks to its historical importance, the friendliness of its inhabitants create an excellent combination, making Quito a city even more beautiful
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CUENCA: ¨The cultural inheritance of the pre-Hispanic peoples who lived in the southern area of present-day Ecuador, with profound religiosity, respect for the land, the work of clay and metals, is undoubtedly a fundamental part of our identity.¨ [ CITATION Gar \l 12298 ] The Colonial period lasted three centuries, in which a mestizo personality of interesting traits was consolidated: sensitive, lover of the landscape, conservative of its goods, calm and laborious, that was enriched, particularly, by the commerce of its crafts, especially of Their fabrics, and thanks to the exploitation and work of the metals.
Important Places in Ecuador Another feature of mestizaje was the appropriation of an architectural model from the region of Andalusia, mostly built with the materials of the sector, will definitively mark the urban face of the small city, its character as a colonial town, in full Republican period. Additional merit is to have preserved in the historic center the geometric trace in checkerboard, respecting the division of urban space by neighborhoods, according to the occupation of its inhabitants. [ CITATION Gar \l 12298 ] On December 1, 1999, UNESCO declared the Historic Center of Cuenca as "Cultural Heritage of Humanity". This Declaration is of fundamental importance for the Cuenca and Cuencanos, because the awareness that we live in a physical space of beauty and cultural values, in which wrought works that distinguish us from other peoples, give us identity and must Preserved for the well-being of all the inhabitants of the planet. [ CITATION Del14 \l 12298 ]
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Cuenca also called as the Athens of Ecuador is a great sample of the beauty that is able to create the human being through its buildings, is also one of the most important cities of Ecuador and more visited by own and foreign, art and The culture are visible in all corners of this beautiful city that despite the passage of the centuries continues and will remain as beautiful as ever
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