Cañar Province

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Cañar (Template:IPA) is a province in Ecuador. The capital is Azogues. At the time of census 2010 the province had a population of 225,184.<ref>INEC, Población total y tasa brutas de natalidad, mortalidad general, mortalidad infantil y materna según regiones y provincias de residencia habitual, año 2005 Template:Webarchive, Retrieved October 13, 2007.</ref> It contains the 16th-century ruins of Ingapirca, the best-known Inca settlement in Ecuador and a product of their conquest of the indigenous Cañari.

Demographics

Ethnic groups as of the Ecuadorian census of 2010:<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Mestizo 76.7%
Indigenous 15.2%
White 4.3%
Afro-Ecuadorian 2.6%
Montubio 1.1%
Other 0.2%

Cantons

The province is divided into 7 cantons. The following table lists each with its population at the time of the 2001 census, its area in square kilometres (km²), and the name of the canton seat or capital.<ref>Cantons of Ecuador. Statoids.com. Retrieved 4 November 2009.</ref>

Canton	Pop. (2019)	Area (km²)	Seat/Capital
Azogues	85,030	613	Azogues
Biblián	23,590	227	Biblián
Cañar	68,190	1,804	Cañar
Déleg	6,760	78	Déleg
El Tambo	12,200	65	El Tambo
Suscal	6,390	31	Suscal
La Troncal	74,680	328	La Troncal