Toacaso Parish (Cotopaxi, Ecuador)

Last modified: 2021-08-26 by klaus-michael schneider
Keywords: cotopaxi | latacunga | toacaso |
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  image by Ivan Sache, 7 September 2018

• Overview
• The Flag

See also:

• Ecuador
• Cotopaxi Province
• Latacunga Canton

Overview

The rural parish of Toacaso (7,591 inhabitants) is located in the north-west of Latacunga canton (Cotopaxi province).

Toacaso was established on 13 June 1645, as San Antonio de Toacaso, by the cacique J�ronimo Mainaloa, Bartolom� Cando Zumba, and the missionary Diego Ca�averal. The inhabitants of Toacaso, scattered over 35 boroughs and communities, belong to the Panzaleo nation, aka Cotopaxi Kichwa.

http://toacaso.gob.ec/
Official website
Ivan Sache, 7 September 2018

The Flag

The official website presents two flags (and three coats of arms), without further explanation. The first flag is horizontally divided green-white-green, while the second is vertically divided in seven stripes, in turn green and white.

http://toacaso.gob.ec/cotopaxi/?p=75
Official website
Ivan Sache, 7 September 2018