Paltas is located to the south of Loja

Loja, Ecuador

Loja is the capital of Ecuador's Loja Province. It is located in the Cuxibamba valley in the south of the country, sharing borders with the provinces of Zamora-Chinchipe and El Oro, and with Peru in the south...

 city and is one of the oldest cantons of province of the same name. It was named after the Paltas, community who used to live over the new city now called Catacocha in Ecuador

Ecuador

Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...

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Shiriculapo it is a pick of the mountain which holds the capital, Catacocha

Catacocha

Catacocha is a town in the Loja Province of Ecuador. It is the seat of the Paltas Canton.- References :* This place is situated in Paltas, Loja, Ecuador, its geographical coordinates are 4° 4' 0" South, 79° 38' 0" West and its original name is Catacocha...

. A nice temperature but mostly foggy during night, even though down the valley of Casanga, Macandamine, Yamana, Playas y Naranjo has a temperature that goes over the normal at its capital.