Qualla: Alamor https://qualla.com/alamor en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/r/1/alamor-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Alamor https://qualla.com/alamor Alamor: Introduction https://qualla.com/alamor/ Photo credit Josisalima, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Puyango River is not much of a river in the dry season - a silver thread through the Loja foothills, easy to wade across. Follow it west, though, and it gathers water from the Alamor, the Ingenio, the Cochurco, and by the time it crosses into Peru it has changed its name to the Tumbes and found the Pacific. Alamor sits 1,380 meters up in the mountains above this quiet waterway, serving as seat of the Puyango canton in the south-western corner of Loja Province, Ecuador. It is a town where the border with Peru feels close because it is close - a short drive west, a muddy river, another country.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/r/1/alamor-wp/6pr1-alamor-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Alamor: The Canton in Its Corner https://qualla.com/alamor/ Photo credit Josisalima, CC BY-SA 3.0. Puyango canton covers 643 square kilometers of coffee farms, cattle pastures, and steep mountain country, with about 16,800 residents across the urban parish of Alamor and five rural ones - Vicentino, Mercadillo, El Limo, Ciano, and El Arenal. Alamor itself, home to roughly 6,000...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/r/1/alamor-wp/6pr1-alamor-the-canton-in-its-corner.mp3 0:06 2 full Alamor: The Two Ridges https://qualla.com/alamor/ Photo credit Josisalima, CC BY-SA 3.0. Two ranges rise above Puyango - the Alamor ridge itself and a second range where Cerro Curiachi shows darker stone. South of town, the mountain range of El Limo splits into branches with names like Canoas, Puerto Nuevo, Banderones, Gentil, and Achiral. These are not the postcard ...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/r/1/alamor-wp/6pr1-alamor-the-two-ridges.mp3 0:06 3 full Alamor: A Calendar of Saints and Crops https://qualla.com/alamor/ Photo credit Josisalima, CC BY-SA 3.0. Alamor marks its year by five festivals. January 23 is cantonization day, when Puyango became an administrative unit distinct from its neighbors - a date preserved in civic speeches and parade routes. July 16 belongs to the Virgen del Carmen; August 15 to the Virgin of the Assump...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/r/1/alamor-wp/6pr1-alamor-a-calendar-of-saints-and-crops.mp3 0:06 4 full Alamor: Where the Border Runs https://qualla.com/alamor/ Photo credit Josisalima, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Puyango River does something specific: it forms part of the international border between Ecuador and Peru. Cross to the opposite bank and you are in the Republic of Peru - a fact that has shaped Alamor's history in ways both obvious and subtle. Commerce flows across the borde...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/r/1/alamor-wp/6pr1-alamor-where-the-border-runs.mp3 0:06 5 full Alamor: Coffee, Rum, and the Quiet Economy https://qualla.com/alamor/ Photo credit Josisalima, CC BY-SA 3.0. If you pass through Alamor on the Loja-Arenillas highway, you will likely stop for a meal at one of the simple restaurants on the main street and find yourself handed a cup of local coffee - the region's signature crop, grown on small farms where elevation and climate conspire to...

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