THE TOMEBAMBA PROVINCE

453 Years to traditional history has argued that the Spanish city of Cuenca was founded on the ruins of the ancient "Ciudad inca de Tomebamba". But, recent research of the cuencano historian José Luis Espinoza, prove that basin was ever founded on an inca Center and that was not called Tomebamba. Espinoza said that at the end of the Inca State, Tomebamba occupied the cañaris area, within which, were called "wamanis" or four main centres: Hatun Cañar in Ingapirca, Pumapungo near of Cuenca, Molleturo in Cajas and Cañaribamba in Yunguilla, the territory corresponded to what is today referred to as province.  Pumapungo, for its part, was designated as the "second Cuzco" place where was born of Huayna Capac and that represented a copy in growth of the great inca capital in Peru. Hatun Cañar, Ingapirca today was the great temple to the Sun corresponding to Tomebamba, which has been mentioned by some chroniclers. Investigations are based on references ethnohistorical and archaeological, which analyze events from before the founding of Cuenca that occurred on April 12, 1557.

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