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Key facts
- Country
- Ecuador
- Capital
- Loja
- Prefect
- Mario Mancino ( SUMA )
- Vice prefect
- María José Sotomayor
- Governor
- Alexandra Jara
- Total
- 11,066 km (4,273 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 2,225 m (7,300 ft)
- Density
- 43.866/km (113.61/sq mi)
- Spanish
- ?%
- Quechua
- ?%
- Vehicle registration
- L
- Pronunciation
- (lō'hä)
- Annual rainfall
- 950 mm
- Hdi 2017
- 0.747 , high · 7th
- Website
- prefecturaloja .gob .ec
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- province of Ecuador
- Official name
- Provincia de Loja
- Demonym
- lojano/a
- Country
- Ecuador
- Located in
- Ecuador
- Contains
- Zapotillo Canton
- Capital
- Loja
- Official language
- Northern Quichua
- Population
- 216802
- Area
- 11063.88
- Time zone
- Q5390
- Shares border with
- Azuay Province
- Official website
- prefecturaloja.gob.ec
- Dialing code
- 07
- Licence plate code
- L
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- Commons category
- Loja Province
- topic's main category
- Category:Loja Province
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Loja Province
- inception
- 1824-06-25
- office held by head of government
- prefect
- postal code
- EC11
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Encyclopedic overview
Macará Mountains
Loja Province ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlo.xa]) is one of 24 provinces in Ecuador and shares its southern border on the west with El Oro Province, on the north with El Azuay, and on the east with Zamora-Chinchipe. Founded on its present site in 1548 by Captain Alonso de Mercadillo (Spanish), the site had been previously moved and rebuilt from La Toma due to earthquakes. It also is named as "Cuxibamba Valley", from the Quichua language, which means the "Smiley Valley".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Loja Province” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.