Carchi Province

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Carchi Province
Provincia del Carchi
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Bandera Provincia Carchi.svg
Location in Ecuador
Galápagos Esmeraldas Carchi Imbabura Sucumbios Orellana Napo Pichincha Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas Manabí Cotopaxi Tungurahua Bolívar Los Ríos Guayas Cañar Chimborazo Pastaza Morona Santiago Azuay Santa Elena El Oro Loja Zamora Chinchipe Kolumbien PeruLocation in Ecuador
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Basic data
Capital Tulcán
population 162,797 (2005,)
- Share in Ecuador 1.2%
- Rank in Ecuador Rank 15 of 22
- density 44 inhabitants per km²
surface 3,699 km²
- Share in Ecuador 1.4%
- Rank in Ecuador Rank 20 out of 22
License Plate C.
Set up 1880
prefect Gene. René Yandún ( ID )
governor Efrén Benavídez
Seats in the
National Congress		 3 out of 100
structure 6 cantons
ISO 3166-2 EC-C
www.carchi.gob.ec

Carchi ( Spanish Provincia del Carchi ) is a province in Ecuador , in which about 165,000 people live on 3700 km² . It was founded on November 19, 1880 and was previously part of Imbabura Province . The provincial capital is Tulcán .

location

Landscape from the village of Julio Andrade, Province of Carchi.

Carchi is the northernmost province in the Ecuadorian Andean highlands . It borders Imbabura to the south, Esmeraldas to the west, Sucumbíos to the east and Colombia to the north . The Panamericana crosses the province from north to south .

politics

The directly elected Prefect of Carchi Province is General René Yandún from the social democratic party Izquierda Democrática . The mayor of Tulcán, Pedro Velasco, also belongs to this party.

The governor appointed by the president is Efrén Benavídez.

Even if not as badly as in Sucumbíos , Carchi occasionally suffers from the armed conflict in neighboring Colombia, as fighters from guerrilla groups such as the FARC are increasingly seeking refuge across the border and are also sometimes active there.

Cantons

The province of Carchi is currently divided into six cantons . These are (in order of their establishment):

  1. Tulcán (established in 1851 as a canton of the Imbabura province, capital: Tulcán )
  2. Montúfar (established in 1905, capital: San Gabriel )
  3. Espejo (established in 1934, capital: El Ángel )
  4. Mira (established in 1980, previously part of the canton of Tulcán, capital: Mira )
  5. Bolívar (established in 1985, capital: Bolívar )
  6. Huaca (established in 1995, previously part of the canton of Tulcán, capital: San Pedro de Huaca)

Remarks

  1. ↑ http://www.inec.gov.ec/interna.asp?inc=enc_tabla&idTabla=621 ( Memento from October 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

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Coordinates: 0 ° 49 ′  N , 78 ° 7 ′  W