The Ingapirca area is a blooming parish of southern Ecuador located in Cañar province. It sports 240 square kilometers and a population of approximately 14,000 inhabitants, out of whom 2,000 are living in the parish center (3,180 meters or 10,000 feet above sea level), and the other populace is spread all around the countryside. The town’s name of Ingapirca was taken after the archeological complex which stands forth as an important evidence of Cañari and Inca presence. Today Ingapirca continues being one of the more flourishing areas and it surpasses most areas in productivity. Cañar province occupies a high basin surrounded by mountains which are the base for neighboring Azuay province’s peaks and are the highest chain of mountains of the area, which also serves as the natural division of two different regions.
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