This unusual name is derived from a reading Diana Rueda had done on a brave chieftain of the ethnicity of the Amazonian Shuar (Quiruba), who bravely stood up to the Spanish conquerors in the city of Macas.
Luis Macas (born 1951), Kichwa politician and intellectual from Saraguro, Ecuador
Located between Baños, and the Amazonian cities of Tena and Macas, Puyo is the commercial, cultural and political capital of the region.
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The city is connected by road to Ambato, Tena, and Macas and from there to the major urban areas of Ecuador.
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