Yaku Pérez Guartambel
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Yaku Sacha Pérez Guartambel, often simply known as Yaku Pérez, is an Ecuadorian politician and indigenous rights, human rights, and nature's rights activist, who ran for president of the country in th
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Pérez during a protest in 2015.
Cañari
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The Cañari are an indigenous ethnic group traditionally inhabiting the territory of the modern provinces of Azuay and Cañar in Ecuador. They are descended from the independent pre-Columbian tribal con
Yaku Pérez Guartambel
…of the country in the 2021 presidential elections and came third in the first round. He ran for president again in the 2023 elections. Ethnically Cañari, Pérez is a former member of the eco-socialist Pachakutik Party. On 14 May 2019, he was elected as Provincial Prefect of the Azuay Province. As the…
Cañari musicians
A Cañari weaver at his loom
After the Incan conquest, the Incas settled in the Cañari capital of Ingapirca, which became an important regional center. At the back can be seen the Temple of the Sun of the Incan period.
Young women wearing the typical hat