Loja City

San Sebastisn Tower

Loja City is situated in the south of our country Ecuador, it's slightly smaller than Cuenca but it's beautiful and interesting, you can find a lot of churches, museums, restaurants, parks, etc.

Central Park

It has 214.100 habitants, Loja is bounded on the west by El Oro y Perú, east by Zamora Chinc, north by Cuenca and south by Perú. The average temperature in there is 16ºC.

It has so many touristics places like: San Sebastian Tower, City Door, Central Park, but if you like natural places you can go to Vilcabamba which is recognized by the longevity of its habitants and warm weather; or Podocarpus National Park, both of them have very interesting things that you're gonna like.

City Door

You can find a lor of variety of typical food, but the most important and recognized is "cecinas", it is delicious and prepared with pork.

Loja city has many celebrations like: San Marcos Day, the carnival, celebration of the "Virgen del Cisne", etc.

You can go and visit museums, they'll show you the history and culture of this city. Another important place is Recreational park "Jipiro", this is very big, you'll find a a lot of atractions like a lake, a kind of small zoo where you can see a variety of animals, sports areas, pools, camping areas.

As you can see, Loja is a city with a lot of things to visit, the people is very frieldly, and you'll fell like at home.

I chose this city because I lived in there when I was a little boy, and I really liked it, because it was calm, small, you could go anywhere walking and not using the car, well but.. that was many years ago, now, some people have told that is the same city but so much better, I mean, same culture, same history, same friendly people, but with more interesting places to visit.

The differences between Cuenca and Loja are few, like kind of food they like or size, I guess there are more similarities than differences like, kind of people (race), similar weather, it has rivers crossing the city, natural parks (Cajas and Podocarpus).