The canton is being promoted as a tourist region, and was named a Pueblo Mágico (magical town) by the Ecuadorian Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR) in 2019.

The urban one is Central Alausí and the rural ones are: Tixán, Sibambe, Huigra, Pistishi, Sneaky, Pulls, Seville, Pumallacta, and Crowd.

Some significant parameters of the existing services in the canton are: In summary, the deficit of basic residential services reaches 82.06% of homes The historical center of the city, with its narrow cobbled streets, buildings that mix constructive and stylistic traditions of the Ecuadorian highlands and coast, together with its balconies with flowers and picturesque facades, allowed it to declare National Heritage and one of the centers of greatest tourist attraction in the province and the country.

In the natural viewpoint of the Lluglli 'mess, the monumental sculpture (21 meters high) of Saint Peter, built in 2001 by Eddie Crespo.

The old locomotive or the new autoferros make a dizzying and exciting journey to the Devil's nose, a singular formation on which the railway zigzags to overcome the arisca Andean geography.

In Huigra, one of the parishes of the canton, there are some buildings from the early twentieth century such as the railway station, the General Management of the National Company of State Railways, the monument to Eloy Alfaro that also contains two effigies of the Hartman brothers and was made by the Ecuadorian sculptor Carlos Mayer in Italy in 1929, and some other valuable buildings that see the river pass through the center of this historic urban center.

The largest are those of Magtayan, with an area of 2.19 km2 and Ozogoche or Cubillina with 5.25 km2, located approximately at 3,800 meters above sea level, constituting another important natural attraction.