La Troncal - Cañar - Ecuador

It is a canton of the Province of Cañar, Ecuador. Its cantonal head is the city of La Troncal. Due to the richness of its land, the canton La Troncal is one of the main agricultural producers of the province, and it stands out above all for its extensive sugar cane plantations.

This small town has grown out of sugarcane agriculture whose icon characterizes it, houses one of the most productive sugar mills in the country, as the main industry in the area and generates hundreds of jobs for the economic benefit of the inhabitants of the sector. Ecuador is a tourist paradise and La Troncal boasts its natural beauty that can be seen in its hot springs spas surrounded by mountains, rivers and relaxation, recreation, embraced by flora and wildlife. This sweet city, because of the aroma of its cane fields and beautiful for its people, is located at the end of the mountain range, in the coastal headwaters of the Cañar. This picturesque place has become a cosmopolitan city that has a variety of recreational centers that offer excellent tourist services.

Typical Foods La Troncal Canton

Bolones de verde: They are prepared with green bananas which are cooked and crushed to form a kind of dough, which is filled with cheese or pork rinds or chorizo. It is usually accompanied by a fried egg, chili and a cup of coffee.

Broth of balls: It is a soup that consists of balls of green banana stuffed with meat and vegetables in a broth of meat, also takes pieces of yucca and choclo.

Fritada: It is a typical dish which has as its main component pork fried in paila (Bronze) that most times is accompanied by potato entreras, potato omelette, mote, cooked corn, pickled, etc.

Tourism Canton La Troncal

When traveling to La Troncal you have to take time to live a unique adventure, the troncaleños are hospitable people of humble attitudes very attached to religion and influenced by mountain and coastal cultures; You can stay at any of the hotels and start a tour of the central market where you can find craft shops and groceries, you can also visit spas, restaurants, cabins, at night visit bars or clubs and on weekends take time to practice extreme sports.

Cultures and Traditions Cantón La Troncal

Important holidays Cantón La Troncal

Cantonization Parties - August 25. - The parties have become a highly anticipated tourist attraction, where programs such as: queen election, cultural-tourism, gastronomic fairs, marathons, sports championships, dance festivals, extreme sports, motor racing, motocross, bicicross, popular games, neighborhoods, rodeo montubio, trade fairs-agricultural livestock, and culminate with parades, and most expected "The Night of Lights Troncaleñas."

Important dates Canton La Troncal

1582. - What is currently La Troncal, was known in Cañari as Rircay, was part of the canton Cañar and its parish since very old, and was colonized by people from Cañar and also from Azuay.
1975 - February 24. - The Municipal Council of Cañar, raised to the rural parish category, the La Troncal campus of the jurisdiction of Manuel de Jesús Calle.
1977 - October 18. - Massacre of the workers of AZTRA, during the military dictatorship, when the sugar workers justly demanded the participation of the profits obtained by the sugar mills by raising the price of the sugar quintal. The uniformed responded with bullet, seeding the Ingenio of heaps of corpses.
1983 - August 25. - Due to its accelerated population growth, it was elevated to canton on August 25, 2023 and published in the Official Registry on September 22 of the same year.