Zamora is a canton in the
Zamora-Chinchipe Province
Zamora Chinchipe (), Province of Zamora Chinchipe is a province of the Republic
of Ecuador, located at the southeastern end of the Amazon Basin, which shares borders with the Ecuadorian provinces of Azuay and Morona Santiago to the north, Loja a ...
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 was named after
Zamora city, the provincial capital and head of the canton of the same name.
History
On October 11, 1911, the Zamora Canton was created in the great former
Provincia de Oriente
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...
, later in 1921 it became part of the
Santiago-Zamora Province and in 1953, it permanently became part of the actual province.
General information
The canton is known for being one of the oldest and the largest canton in area of the province. It is surrounded by the remaining cantons, with exception of the
Chinchipe,
El Pangui
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Religion
* El (deity), a Semitic word for "God"
People
* EL (rapper) (born 1983), stage name of Elorm Adablah, a Ghanaian rapper and sound engineer
* El DeBarge, music artist
* El Franco Lee (1949–2016), American po ...
and
Paquisha
The Paquisha War or Fake Paquisha War () was a military clash that took place between January and February 1981 between Ecuador and Peru over the control of three watchposts. While Peru felt that the matter was already decided in the Ecuadorian†...
cantons. To the west the canton borders with 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 ...
.
The Zamora Canton is the entrance from the Sierra Region towards the rest of the province by the
Troncal Amazónica Highway, in a stretch of 62 kilometers from
Loja city.
Political division
The canton is divided in 7 parishes, to wit:
*Cumbaratza
*Guadalupe
*El Limón
*Imbana
*Sabanilla
*San Carlos
*Timbara
*
Zamora
Cantons of Zamora-Chinchipe Province
{{Cantons of Ecuador