Paltas Canton is located to the south of
Loja city
and is one of the oldest cantons of province of the same name. It was named after the Paltas, a community who used to live over the new city now called Catacocha in
Ecuador
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...
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Shiriculapo it is a pick of the mountain which holds the capital,
Catacocha
Catacocha is a town in the Loja Province of Ecuador. It is the seat of the Paltas Canton.
References
www.inec.gov.ec
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Populated places in Loja Province ...
. A nice temperature but mostly foggy during night, even though down the valley of Casanga, Macandamine, Yamana, Playas y Naranjo has a temperature that goes over the normal at its capital.
References
Cantons of Loja Province
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