[2] The town is located on a high Andean plain, at an altitude of 2,800 metres above sea level and has an average temperature of around 13 degrees Celsius.

Down the maternal line his grandparents were Pillahuaso Ati, Cacique de Píllaro and the Queen Choasanguil.

El Congreso Nacional (the National Congress) in 1985, decided that 1 December be remembered as a commemoration of the country's indigenous hero and a defender of the Kingdom of Quito against the Spanish conquistadors.

The gold was supposed to go to Francisco Pizarro to pay the ransom for the kidnapped Incan king, Atahualpa.

Rumiñahui, on learning that his king had been killed, sidetracked to the deserted páramo of the Llanganates and buried the gold.