T HE DO O R O F G O LD O F T HE COUNTRY

T HE CA RCHI

HISTORY The territories of this municipality were populated in the prehispanic trap by the indigenous communities to those that the Inca calls himself with the yam of Quillasingas word of origin quichua that him / she means" I pray in the nose" with the one that designated me so that by way of decoration they Take hung of the nose to the slope in form of half moon.

MA P O F T H E C O U N T Y DE T HE O NE CA RCHI

DATA OF THE COUNTY OF THE CARCHI

POPULATION: 164.507 hab. A RE A : 3.749.7 Km2 HEIGHT: 1.640 m.s.n.m.

CLIMATE: Of type moor, mesotrmico, humid and semihmedo. The temperatures oscillate between the 10 and 15 C.

ACTIVITY: to be a border county with Colombia their main source of income it resides in the border trade of agricultural products and you manufacture, legalized with the help of Agreements of Integration between Ecuador and Colombia.

Their main agricultural products are: potato, soft corn, wheat, frjol, barley and beans. While in the subtropical area they are cultivated: avocados, sugar cane, banana, pepper and fruits. LOCATION: South America COUNTRY: Ecuador

NATIVE SYMBOLS OF THE CA RCHI

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MEANING THE WORD CARCHI

Etimolgicamente, according to Isaac Acosta, the word Carchi comes from the language chaina caribe and he/she means" to the other side." Always their combatant people have been influenced by her ancestors, the Grasses Quillasingas, an ethnos that extended between the north of the valley of the Chota and the south of Grass who in turn were the support of the race Mayoide clearly notorious in the drawings inspired by the snake plumada, symbol of the origin of the world and the knot of union between the sky and the earth. Ancestral manufacturers, it proves of it the conical form of their cabins.

F LO RA
One can observe species like: Chilcas, guarumos, chuquiraguas, arboreal ferns, frailejones, straw, pumamaqui, moss, bromelias, pads and a great variety of orchids.

FAUNA
Colibres, Andean gulls, moor ducks, curiquingues, quilicos, condors, cervicabras, deer, moor wolves, marsupial toads, trouts, preadilla, butterflies of multiple colors and in the subtropical areas: guanta, bear and snake..

EAT TYPICAL
HORNADO PASTUSO There are several typical plates, but he/she stands out the call hornado pastuso, with potato tortillas, beans and mellocos.

CHE E S E S DE T UF I O It has a variety of cheeses of different flavors, colors and sizes: salted, spicy, with honey or with coffee. There are cheeses from 200 grams up to 30 kg. THE DELAYER (he/she Looks) It is the typical drink of the looks at us. It consists on a mixture of orange juice, rum (called tips) and sugar, more some secret ingredients that give him an unique magic touch. POTATOES WITH LEATHER (Mirror) It consists on potatoes with chancho leather, kneaded cheese and pepper, a plate preferred for own and strange, they serve them to him especially in the hours of the afternoon and he/she is it in the central park. R O A S T E D G U I N E A P I G (Mi rro r) It is a typical plate, very utilized in the family and traditional social commitments in the mingas. It contains potatoes, lettuce, avocado.

TOURIST ATTRACTIONS
The positivism of their landscape and the wealth of their earth are the main attractiveness. The Thermal baths of Waters of the Grotto of the Peace and the moors of the ngel's Reservation are the obliged stops of the adventure, it is not necessary to worry about the since cold people's hospitality he/she makes the visitor feel like at home. The main and more attractive places for the tourism reflect the natural physical structure of the region as well as the folclor and the culture of their residents:

1 . Reserva Ecolgica El ngel

2. Ciudad de Tulcn 3. Cementerio de Tulcn 4 . G ru t a d e l a P a z 5 . C i u d a d d e Mo n t f a r 6. A guas Hediondas 7. Lagunas Verdes 8. Lagunas del Voladero 9. Volcn Chiles 1 0. Cascada de Paluz 1 1 . Bosque de los Arrayanes 1 2. Laguna del S alado

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T ULCA N BOLVAR MI R A ESPEJO MONTUFAR S A N P E DRO DE HUA CA

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Cemetery of Tulcn

In the north center of the capital city of the county this located the municipal cemetery that houses an adorned park of 4 hectares in their interior of sculptures in green and that they are not another thing that cypress trees pruned artistically by able gardeners trained by the extinct Manuel Mara Azael Franco, to the one who for the year of 1936 and I eat boss of parks of the city it was commended him to carry out the maintenance of the garden of the interior of the cemetery, creating this way this work teacher that National Patrimony. Labyrinths, anthropomorphous figures or zoomorfas, sculptures of before Columbus archaeological inspiration, arches and taken effigies of Roman, Greek cultures and Egyptians adorn the place that he/she enjoys international fame because besides the villagers, national and Colombian tourists, for their fame are frequently visited by tourists of other latitudes and continents. In Manuel's tablet Mara Azael Franco the following legend prays:

This place is so beautiful that until they give desires of dying.

The characteristic that makes only to this cemetery is its impressive figures carved in cypress you figure Augustinian, before Columbus, Ecuadorian fauna, arches of half point, pylons and giant mascarones.

V O LCA NO CHI LI S

Height: 4748 Coordinated: 048 N, 7757 OR County: Carchi Location: Western Mountain range Sector: The volcano Chilis is located to 24 Km to the west of Tulcn and together with the volcano Black Hill of Mayasquer they constitute part of the frontier with Colombia. Description This volcano is a wide boiler lengthened with a diameter of 1.500 m with diameter of wide of 900 m. Although he/she doesn't have glaciers, if it maintains constant snow in the flanks and inside the boiler. Don't leave activity inside the boiler, however a historical eruption not confirmed in July 17 1936 and reported in Colombia it is mentioned by Ingeominas, scientific organism of that country.

G RE E N LA G O O NS

Following the road Tufio Maldonado you it finds a lacustrine complex (conformed forfive lagoons) located in the estribaciones southern of the Volcano Chilis, approximately to 3850 msnm. Their waters contain sulfur and they are populated by chlorophyllian algae, what grants them, in their group, a turquoise coloration.

Y O U DI LUT E S T I NK I NG

This is a slope located to the occident of the parish Tufio that leaves the bowels of the volcano Chilis, in their skirts south oriental, where the water accumulates minerals and temperature. Until here carchenses and inhabitants of the south of Colombia go to cure their ailments of the back.

Location

The thermal baths of Stinking Waters are to 6 Km. of the parish Tufio, the time in traveling this distance is of 30 minutes.

Extension C l i ma t e

The complex has 15 hectares of path, where the tourists carry out their expeditions. The complex of waters thermal bill with a temperature of 10 grades. Their waters are rich in sulfur and they reach

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V I RG I N O F T HE PURIFICATION

Sanctuary of the Sacred Virgin of the Purification, located in the central park of the City of Huaca, beautifully decoration with paintings to the oil, with altars adorned with bread of gold daily the parishioners dedicate big decorations in natural flowers. The Sacred Virgin's effigy dates of the XVII century. The Party in honor to the Sacred Virgin of the Purification, of January 1 at February 2, party traditional nun taken place with the daily participation of neighborhoods, communities and groups of voluntary priostes they surrender homage to the Employer of the Canton, as a gratefulness for the received favors our eminently Catholic community bases its Fs daily, since on the Purita as affectionately he/she calls himself, daily castles burn, pyrotechnic games, are organized cultural, social, sport programs. By the middle of the month of January he/she is carried out, with wing participation of all the priostes, the cry, in which you/they are stood out the religious securities and of enlargement.

MONTFAR

This jewel of colonial architecture is considered inigualable in their due gender to that is the only church of the Ecuador built according to the law of Indies, that is to say outside of the main Square, and in a place visible from any point of view.

THE PROCERATO

Located in the middle of center of the city, we find the Monument to the procerato of t he Work, I deign recognition to combatant people and worker of the region. Sustained by ten columns of doric style in form of half moon and the stars that symbolize the parishes that t he they conform, giving a cultural element for who know of Greek art Roman.

F O RE S T O F THE MYRTLES

I siege favorite for the lovers of the Ecoturismo this forest has an extension of 10 hectares of trees of myrtle of reddish trunk and I thicken foliage in whose branches mosses, orchids of several classes grow. Who visit him they are amazed because it is one of the few ones that exist in Latin America, and it is one of the most important lungs in the county, located to the east of the city from San Gabriel to 11 Km.

CA S CA DE O F PALUZ
Located to 4 Km of the city of San Gabriel. He/she has approximately 25 m of fall of it dilutes formed of the one river of the same one name.

It has served of inspiration for poets, painters, musicians for their eddy and beauty.

LA G O O N DE THE SALTED ONE

This beautiful place has 500m of long for 200 of wide, located very near another nonpareil beauty the one Forest of the Myrtles, without a doubt some flame the attention to national and international tourists for their flora like sallows, totoras, grasses, orchid, capul, exotic plantations of pines and eucalyptuses, as well as the fauna characteristic of the place. This 45 beautiful Kilometers. of one of place Tulcn is and 4 located to

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GROTTO OF T HE P E A CE

Without any doubt this wonderful place, it is one of the most representative places religious of the Canton Montfar. The Grotto of the Peace is only, located to 18 m of San Gabriel, he/she has become in the place more visited by national tourists and foreigners. It is denominated this way by the grotto where Our is seated Mrs. of the Peace, it has been formed by falling of the waters of the river Apaqu, a caveThat has 150 m. of formed depth of stalactites and stalagmites of different colors. Place of extreme natural beauty and I give refuge for those believers.

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Ernesto Hidrobo MAYOR

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PARK OF THE MEGAFAUNA

In this park one lives the encounter with our ancestors what has allowed to open the way to the rescue and scientific study of the paleontological remains found in the sector of Hill of Fewer, where the discoveries of fossils are based, locus in quo converged the Mastodons to take water, the same ones that died since in that instant erupcion the hill The Cerotal, covering these animals completely, in Bolvar has also been wellknown fossils of this animals as the valley of the Dinosaurs. Therefore he/she has been carried out sculptures and representative images to the evolution taking advantage of the ancestral, natural wealth and paisajstica of the environment. Fossil remains exist, they are in the Museum of the old

B A S I LI CA O F T HE O NE MI S T E R O F T H E G O O D HO P E

In the month of May each year marks the holidays religious in honor of his patron, Lord of the Good Esperanza, the main issues is the run, fireworks, fireworks, game cocks fine ball matches national wind mode and glove and good for the racetrack championship Colombo Ecuadorian funded and organized by the priostes, institutions, clubs and neighborhoods that are responsible for your organization, for 1 5 days around the holidays while they last. Tourists visiting the Bolivar Canton leave to savor the delicious sweetbreads, traditional rosquetes

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E CO LO G I CA L RESERVE T HE A NG E L

The ecological reservation the ngel possesses an extraordinary one moor biodiversity it is exclusive their main association vegetable constituted by the frailejones (Espeletia pycnophylla ssp. angelensis), you plant compound, arbustivas, characterized for their pubescent leaves that the 7 m of height can reach, it is one of the two ecosystems of frailejones moor endemic protected in the country, being constituted in one of the hot biodiversity spot that has equator. The moors of the Carchi present the biggest populations of frailejones in the equator the ender Espeletia is very diverse in the moors

LA G O O NS T HE V O LA DE RO

Located on an extensive plain to 3 700 msnm inside the REEA, where the topography and vegetation of the area they don't allow an appropriate drainage, converting the areas aledaas of those lagoons in marshy floors. They are located 25 km to the north of the city.

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FAUSTO RUIZ MAYOR

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APPEARANCE OF OUR LADY OF THE CHARITY

The history of appearance of the Sacred Virgin of the Charity it dates behind of many centuries. Our ancestors that the Image appeared narrated when he/she Looks it was an Establishment in the country property Old Town, sector San Marcos. There the Image appeared. They counted our adults that he/she appeared in the center of this small town a loaded mule a drawer, when seeing that the animal didn't move of the place and his owner didn't appear. The first inhabitants of that then, lowered the load and when opening the drawer they met with the Sacred Virgin's Image that he/she knew it to him with the Pure Concepcin's name in principle and their first parties took place with that name.