Amaguaña
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There are no references to the name of Amaguaña to the time before the Incas. Since the arrival of the Incas, the site was known as Anan Chillo, with its Chief Don Amador Amaguaña.
The word Amaguaña can be considered from the origins, the first, which comes from two Quichua names, "ama": no and "huañuy": death, you will die; in such a way that it is equivalent to "you will not die."
The second comes from the Aymara amahuaña, which means love, will.
Territorial Location
It is located to the South-West of the Quito Canton.
Population: 25,000 inhabitants. 90% indigenous and 10% mestizo.
Date of religious foundation: Year 1532 (Spanish Conquest)
Date of civil foundation: May 29, 1861
Historical references
There are indications that they were small towns in which there were social differences, their agriculture was based on corn, their ceramics were very well worked having a great variety of decorative features. Its later development is found within the so-called Señorío de Quito or the Quitus-Caras Tribe, in the Andean area it was very common not to indicate the place
geographical area, but to the owner of the chief himself. Father Juan de Velasco (1978) includes Amaguaña as a province of the Kingdom of Quito, that in the pre-Inca period. Being one of the extensive authorities that of the Quingalumbo who ruled in Los Chillos, Cumbayá and Tumbaco.
Production
The first looms of Chillo (Chillo-Gijón) were started in this parish. Currently the productive activities are: agricultural, worker and artisan. There are professionals who emigrate to the city to carry out their work.
Festive calendar
Carnival festivities, (February) have been celebrated for 47 years, a week before Ash Wednesday. Within the festivities there are cultural events such as vespers, fireworks, comparsas and the traditional parade of the fellowship.
Popular Festivities: (August 10) bullfight
Cultural manifestations
Dance: El Pingullero, Los Danzantes, Los Rucos, Los Diablo Humas, representations of the daily life of Chillo's wife.
It is located to the South-West of the Quito Canton.
Typical meals
Cuy, broad beans, corn, locro, broth of 31, corn tortillas made in pot.
Tourist attractions
Church and central park
Ecological Path
Cachaco
Pasochoa ecological reserve
Hosterias: Carlitos, San Pedro, La Cristianía, El Paraiso.
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