El Quinche
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El Quinche is a city of
The city is known for the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Presentation of El Quinche. A 16th century wooden image of the
Pre-Columbian history
El Quinche is situated on a plain at the foot of the eastern cordillera of the
The Incas built a temple over the indigenous huaca (shrine), and in turn the Spanish after conquering the area in the 1530s built a church over the Inca temple which became the shrine of El Quinche.[4]
El Quinche was the southernmost settlement of what was called the Pais Caranqui, a group of northern Ecuadorian chiefdoms, which opposed the expansion of the Incas into their homelands. After conquering El Quinche, the Incas constructed a number of hilltop forts (pukaras) called the Pambamarca Fortress Complex 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) north west of El Quinche to prosecute the war against the Cayambe people and other chiefdoms and also to protect El Quinche. An Inca road stretched from Quito to El Quinche and onward to Pambamarca and toward the lowland tropics of Ecuador.[5]
References
- ^ "The Pope meets clergy in the shrine of El Quinche and bids farewell to Ecuador," Gaudium Press, http://en.gaudiumpress.org/content/71388-The-Pope-meets-clergy-in-the-shrine-of-El-Quinche-and-bids-farewell-to-Ecuador-, accessed 3 June 2017
- ^ "The Pope meets clergy in the shrine of el Quinche and bids farewell to Ecuador | Gaudiumpress English Edition". en.gaudiumpress.org. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
- ^ Bray, Tamara L. (Oct. 1992), "Archaeological Survey in Northern Highland Ecuador: Inca Imperialism and the Pais Caranqui," World Archaeology, Vol. 24, No. 2, p. 220
- ^ Anderson, Amber Marie (2014), More than Forts: A study of high elevation enclosures within the Pambamarca Fortress Complex, Ecuador, Dissertation, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, p. 201
- ^ Anderson, pp. 327-329
