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ATTRACTIVE TOURIST IN RIVER BASIN

The Historical center of River basin draws immediately attention by its straight streets, paved with gray and rectangular grayish andesite paving stones, inheritance of the drawn up one Renaissance that the Spanish city planners of century XVI applied in the Cities of the New World. In addition we can find the Calderón Park.

Without a doubt, when visiting the Historical Center, is not had to stop admiring the landscape of the Precipice of the Tomebamba.

From any site of River basin, the first that calls attention is the immense salmon rosaceous mass, crowned by cupolas blanquiazules, of the Cathedral New or Cathedral of the Immaculate one. This magnificent building, true symbol of the religious faith of the morlacos of long ago, initiated its construction by the end of century XIX. Between the numerous temples of the city, they stand out in addition the Old Cathedral, that dates from century XVIII; the church of San Sebastián; the temple of the Carmen, with an attached monastery, an authentic colonial jewel; the temple and monastery of the Conception that also date from century XVII.

The Precipice is a sector of constructions and houses that are on the North margin of the Tomebamba river. He is one of the more important monumental sets of the historical center of River basin. The Precipice has a singular historical value since because the archeologist Max Uhle discovered, in 1923, in the denominated sector Pumapungo, archaeological vestiges of the old incásica city Tomebamba that occupied 40 or 50 hectares. The nucleus of this city was Pumapungo where it assumes that it would be the main place of this city.

The Pumapungo site can be visited and continues being investigation object because it is considered that Tomebamba was one of the main urban centers of incásico empire. According to history, Tomebamba was destroyed by the Atahualpa Inca like punishment by the support that lent cañari to Huáscar. One of the most beautiful strolls than can be realized in River basin is by the border of Tomebamba river, cultivated field of willows, listening the murmur of its waters.

Their main museums are the one of the Central bank, the House of the Culture, of the Conceptas, the Curled Remigio Toral, the one of Popular Arts of America, the one of Modern Art and the Institute Azuayo de Folclore.