In the 10th century CE, they followed the Esmeraldas River up to the high Andean valley now known as the city San Francisco de Quito.
Attributed to the Pre-Columbian era Quitu-Cara culture, it was presumably used as an astronomical observatory even before the arrival of the Incas, and is the only prehispanic site in the Americans that is thought to be exactly at Earth's Equator.
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