Loja Zip code

Loja is one of the 24 provinces in Ecuador. It has a southern border with El Oro Province, a north-east border with El Azuay, and a south-west border with Zamora-Chinchipe Province. When Captain Alonso de Mercadillo (Spanish) built the church on its current site in 1548, it had been moved from La Toma because of earthquakes. The church had been rebuilt there before. It's also called "Cuxibamba Valley," which means "Smiley Valley" in the Quichua language, which is why it's called that. Loja is in a high valley in the Andes. It is 7,300 feet above sea level (2,225 m). It had 448,966 people living there at the 2010 census. It is known as a friendly and pleasant city. This was shown when the city of Loja, which is both the provincial capital and one of the oldest cities in Ecuador, won a community involvement award in 2001 for its efforts to help and protect the environment. Loja is surrounded by two rivers, the Zamora and the Malacatos. It has a lot of different microclimates. This unique location leads to a lot of different types of ecosystems. The environment in Peru is made up of paramo, cloud forest, and jungle landscapes. It is between the humid Amazon basin and the coastal sechura desert, which is a dry desert. Almost all of the province is made up of hills or mountains. It has a lot of old buildings and colonial architecture that make Loja a popular place for tourists to visit. Loja is famous for the religious festivals it holds in September every year. It is also known for its musicians. The city has a lot of important music schools, like the Conservatorio Nacional de Musica, which is home to some of the most important musicians in Ecuador. The city is often called the "musical capital of Ecuador." There are also two universities, the Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja and the Universidad Nacional de Loja, both in the city. An important law school is also there. 42 km south of Loja is Vilcabamba, which is called the Valley of Life. People who live in this place live long because of the perfect weather and hot springs in the area. Researchers and scientists have been to the town a lot to study its geography, climate, soil, and water. Articles about Vilcabamba have even been published in well-known magazines like Reader's Digest and National Geographic. They have their own ideas about why the people there live so long. Loja is said to be the first city in Ecuador to have learned how to make electricity. There was an electric dam built in the city called the Itaipu Hydroelectric Dam, which was built in 1896.