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Ipiales is a city in the south-west of Columbia on the border with
Ecuador. It lies among the gorges of the river Guáitara on a peaceful
savannah but it is overlooked by vast Andean peaks with snow all
through the year.
About 1000 years AC it was inhabited by a tribe whose arrival is not on
record. They believed in an immortal soul and they were most proficient
in making both tombs and ceramics. Although they were subjugated by the
Incas, the settlement endured beyond the Spanish conquest and in 1615
Juan Caro built a dozen houses that formed the nucleus of the village
of Ipiales and a hermitage.
You can learn much more about it in Spanish from the Ipiales Times
[www.ipitimes.com,] published for the internet by Artur Coral-Folleco,
a Doctor in Biomedical Sciences from the Universities of Paris VI and XII, France. In particular there’s an
article on tourism [www.ipitimes.com/turismo.htm].
