SunTrips: Yaruqui

Yaruqui Ecuador

Yaruquí is one of the 33 rural parishes of the Metropolitan District of Quito, Ecuador. Yaruquí, Checa, El Quinche, Cumbayá, Tumbaco, were the seat of pre-Inca settlers, which is demonstrated by the objects found in the sector, such as vessels, ceramic objects, obsidian, quartz, basalt utensils, spears, knives. (Karen Pawer. Clothes with Feet). According to historians, it is one of the forty indigenous groups that formed the kingdom of the Quitus and then that of the Shyris, with the influx of the Caras in the 10th century of the Christian era. The original tribes that dominated this region were Puembos, Yaruquíes, Quinches and Cayammbis; When the conquest of the Caras Shiyris took place, a tribe from Bahía de Caráquez, they presented a singular resistance, not the rest were dominated by this people that became one of the four main nations settled in the current Ecuadorian territory: the Shirys, the Puruhaes , the Avocados and the Brambles.

Recommended airport

Mariscal Sucre Intl (UIO)

Nearby destinations

Yaruqui, Ecuador

Yaruqui Ecuador