Macará is a city in the
Loja Province
Loja Province () is one of 24 provinces in Ecuador and shares its southern border on the west with El Oro Province, on the north with El Azuay, and on the east with Zamora-Chinchipe. Founded on its present site in 1548 by Captain Alonso de Mer ...
of
Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...
.
It is the seat of the
Macará Canton and is on the border between Ecuador and
Peru
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The population as of a 1995
census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...
was 11,841 and in 2009 it had an estimated population of 12,896.
It is served by
José María Velasco Ibarra Airport.
See also
*
List of cities in Ecuador
This is a list of city, cities in Ecuador.
List Alphabetical
* Ambato, Ecuador, Ambato
* Arajuno
* Archidona, Ecuador, Archidona
* Atacames
* Azogues
* Babahoyo
* Baeza, Ecuador, Baeza
* Bahía de Caráquez
* Balao
* Balsas, Ecuador, Balsas
* B ...
References
Populated places in Loja Province
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