La Troncal is the seat of
La Troncal Canton in the
Cañar Province
Cañar () is a province in Ecuador. The capital is Azogues. At the time of census 2010 the province had a population of 225,184. It contains the 16th-century ruins of Ingapirca, the best-known Inca settlement in Ecuador and a product of their c ...
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Ecuador
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The region that would become this significant town, was sparsely populated by farmers until the 1950s.
The population began to grow in the 1950s, when migrants from
Azuay
Azuay (), Province of Azuay is a province of Ecuador, created on 25 June 1824. It encompasses an area of . Its capital is Cuenca. It is located in the south center of Ecuador in the highlands. Its mountains reach above sea level in the natio ...
, and the
Cañar provinces began to settle in the area in search of new and better job opportunities.
Around the 1990s thanks to the growth of the sugar mill Aztra, migrants from
Manabi also began to move in, by which the population was gradually growing in size and importance.
References
www.inec.gov.ec(pdf)
External links
Populated places in Cañar Province
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