Yaruquí, Ecuador

Yaruquí, Ecuador

Yaruquí Ecuador

Yaruquí is one of the 33 rural parishes of the Metropolitan District of Quito, Ecuador. Yaruquí, Checa, El Quinche, Cumbayá, and Tumbaco were home to pre-Inca settlers, as shown by objects found in the area such as vessels, ceramic pieces, obsidian, quartz, basalt tools, spears, and knives (Karen Pawer, Clothes with Feet). According to historians, it was one of the forty Indigenous groups that formed the kingdom of the Quitus and later that of the Shyris, with the arrival of the Caras in the 10th century AD. The original tribes that dominated this region were the Puembos, Yaruquíes, Quinches, and Cayambis. When the Caras Shyris— a tribe from Bahía de Caráquez— carried out their conquest, they faced strong resistance, though the rest were subdued by this people, which became one of the four main nations established in what is now Ecuadorian territory: the Shyris, the Puruhaes, the Abatos, and the Brambles.
Recommended airport
Mariscal Sucre Intl (UIO)
Nearby destinations
  • Quito a 23.52 km
  • Machachi a 47.98 km
  • Otavalo a 44.52 km
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