Este trabajo presenta las principales características de un lugar que hasta el momento no ha sido mostrado al mundo, este lugar es Cangahua y está situado a dos horas de Quito, capital de Ecuador y fue nombrado con este nombre alrededor...
moreEste trabajo presenta las principales características de un lugar que hasta el momento no ha sido mostrado al mundo, este lugar es Cangahua y está situado a dos horas de Quito, capital de Ecuador y fue nombrado con este nombre alrededor de 1753, pero la parroquia se instala oficialmente en el año 1790 y dispone de 228 años de haber
sido establecido y todavía conserva la identidad cultural milenaria reflejada y adaptada en las costumbres contemporáneas y actuales.
Este lugar en los Andes Ecuatorianos fue habitado o usado espontáneamente primero por las culturas: Kayambi, Quitus, Natabuelas y algunos pueblos de la Amazonía norte, aunque luego paso a ser también habitado por parte de algunos grupos Incas, y más tarde en épocas de la colonización española y República, como parte la Hacienda Guachalá que se extendía en todo el territorio Sur Oriental de lo que hoy es Cayambe.
ABSTRACT
This work introduces the main features of a place which until the moment hasn`t been show to the world, this place is Cangahua were people can go and visit because it has many places and these are presented and related through this little book.
It is a place located two hours from Quito Ecuador´s capital and it was first named Cangahua around 1753, but the parish was founded by 1790 and it has 231 years of have been established and it still conserves some timelessness buildings.
It is an ancient countryside because it was founded by the ancestral Cayambi culture and in the ancient Quito King it used to belong to a large manor named Guachala. Guachala was really a great manor full of histories and now are part of people.
Cangahua is the biggest countryside in Cayambe with 425 squares kilometersof area and approximately 95% percent of people is considered native original from ancient Cayambi population, and the other 5% percent is considered mestizo.
Currently the urban part of Cangahua has improved and it is where villagers make the main economic activities and regional change because only it has the road to travel to Oyacachi by car, it is a little village located two hours from Cangahua which is at Cayambe-Coca Ecological Reserve. Today in the part urban of Cangahua next to the principal park is a building which will offer service like Hotel in July of 2014
Main economic activities are agriculture with wealth of products own of
Cangahua such as onions, potatoes, corn, barley, bean and broad bean. Another important economic activity is cattle-breeding such as: equine-cattle, deer-cattle, llama-cattle, alpaca-cattle, bovine-cattle and wild-cattle.
In this place is common milk production. Most of these activities are adapted to tempered climate which is usually between 4°C and 18° Celsius and is common in Cangahua.
Wild-cattle are bred around Cangahua in communities such as Gualimburo, Chumillos and Quinchucajas. This kind of animals are manage to be presented in the popular bullfight for Cangahua parties.
Full of folk Cangahua has quaint places for example Quito-Loma and
Pambamarca fortress where the Pre-Incasica culture used to worship Sun Godand where is the great rock turtle an amazing pre-historic structure, Orolomaand Izacata which were part of a timelessness manor.
Also is possible to visit Cayambe-Coca Ecological Reserve a place full of
natural life with the highest level of biodiversity both of flora and fauna, Oyacachi hot pools which water come from Cayambe Volcano, Guachala Castle where by 1736 members of French Geodesic Mission lived here while they measured the Earth, the middle of the world, the Deer’s breeding Center in Cangahua.
Around Cangahua tourist can do many activities such as fish, go rafting and go camping in Oyacachi, also is possible and go climbing and go mountain bikingin Quito-Loma, go seeing deer, condors, wild cattle, seeing plant life in the Cayambe -Coca Ecological Reserve.
Cangahua is the access point to Oyacachi at Cayambe-Coca Ecological
Reserve which owns more than 100 species of endemic plants, 106 mammal species, over 400 birds, 70 reptiles and 116 amphibians.
In all these places people are always welcoming and offer products which some of them are only made in Cangahua for example the ancestral and sweet drink Guarango that is made from pencas´ sap, also is possible to find Tortillas de Chuno that are made from potatoes starch.
The main parties celebrated in Cangahua are: Inti Raymi- Sun Party or San Pedro and San Pablo, which is one of the most popular parties in the North of Sierra Region of Ecuador, this quaint celebration full of folk, people dancing and wearing their best costumes such as; diablouma, zamarro, native dresses, men who wear these clothes are known as Aruchico, Diabluma and women Chinucas.
In Cangahua it is danced each June twenty ninth since Cayambi culture used to feast.
Also each October twenty ninth are celebrated Cangahua parties and is when Cangahua was established, however it's currently celebrated a week before with gigs and folk music. Another celebration in Cangahua is the Easter that is very important to population because all of these are part of this custom and
glorification.
Easter, one of the most important dates celebrated around the world by
Catholic people. In Cangahua this custom is very important because people like help and be part of affliction on Thursday and Friday the same way people like being part of celebration on Sunday.
Por Luis Angel Charro - Realizado para la Obtención del Certificado en Suficiencia de Inglés en Howard Quito - Instituto de Idiomas.
