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Quinche city Ecuador
- Parroquia el Quinche
El Quinche is a pilgrimage site to the Virgen del Quinche and is an hour away from Quito.
Every year there are pilgrimages on foot from Quito to the Virgen del Quinche, because it is known as very miraculous.
Its most important feature is the wooden image of the Virgen del Quinche, carved at the end of the 16th century by the artist and architect Diego de Robles.
The second week of November more than 800,000 believers make the pilgrimage to the shrine of the Virgin of El Quinche that starts from the town of Calderón to El Quinche; the walk takes place during the night, and the next day's dawn arrives at the church of El Quinche. On November 21 the festival mass is celebrated and then the procession ends in all the streets of Quinche.
The route through Pifo is shorter and takes an hour and a half, the buses leave from the northern station of the Ecovia
Through Guayllabamba passing through the Quito zoo.
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