Paltas Canton
Paltas Canton is located to the south of Loja city and is one of the oldest cantons of province of the same name. It was named after the Paltas, a community who used to live over the new city now called Catacocha in Ecuador.- Canton of Ecuador with about 22,800 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 1,910 metres (6,260 feet)
- …is also known as “Paltas”
- Description: canton of Loja province, Ecuador
- Location
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Latitude
-4.0281° or 4° 1′ 41″ south
Longitude
-79.7431° or 79° 44′ 35″ west
Open location code
6772X7C4+QP
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Paltas Canton” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Paltas”
- Cebuano: “Cantón Paltas”
- Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Paltas”
- Chinese: “帕爾塔斯縣”
- Dutch: “Paltas Canton”
- French: “Paltas”
- Galician: “Paltas”
- Georgian: “პალტასი”
- German: “Kanton Paltas”
- Italian: “Cantone di Paltas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Paltas Koān”
- Polish: “Paltas (kanton)”
- Polish: “Paltas”
- Portuguese: “Paltas”
- Quechua: “Paltas kiti”
- Spanish: “Cantón Paltas”
- Spanish: “Paltas”
- Swedish: “Cantón Paltas”
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