Central address: 8 de Diciembre, Sucúa, Ecuador
Elevation: 829.168
Time Zone: America/Guayaquil
Latitude: 2° 27' 23.8608'' S
Longitude: 78° 10' 4.2384'' W
SUCUA small, interesting and welcoming city; headquarters of the Shuar Federation. The canton Sucúa is located in the Central Eastern part of the Morona Santiago Province, 23 km south of the Morona Canton, it is a place that contains a lot of historical, cultural and natural wealth interest. It has become a site with development characteristics, currently has commercial areas, cantonal transport service and air service. Sucúa is surrounded by the Eastern Cordillera of the Andes or Cordillera Real and by the Cordillera del Cutucú, this area is characterized by being in an area of humid subtropical forest, its soils are humid and acidic in some sectors, each of these elements It has been forming a great variety of ecosystems especially of forest, within them there is a variety of natural attractions such as waterfalls, rivers, hot springs surrounded by exuberant primary and secondary vegetation. In this land in its natural vegetation, a plant called nettle predominated, in Shuar language "suku", for this reason its inhabitants called this beautiful plain and as a tribute to it "SUKU", name that was generalized by the region. Later, the first settlers increased the letter "a" to this indigenous word, confirming the name of this beautiful place as SUCÚA
The latitude of Sucúa is -2.456628, and the longitude is -78.167844. Sucúa is a city is located at Ecuador with the gps coordinates of 2° 27' 23.8608'' S and 78° 10' 4.2384'' W. The elevation of Sucúa is 829.168, the time zone is America/Guayaquil.
Latitude | -2.456628 | Longitude | -78.167844 |
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Elevation | 829.168 | DMS Lat | 2° 27' 23.8608'' S |
DMS Lng | 78° 10' 4.2384'' W | GeoHASH | 6r86j0zcj5qgp |
UTM Zone | 17M | UTM Easting | 814989.488562993 |
UTM Northing | 9728133.00402577 | Time Zone | America/Guayaquil |
Country | Ecuador | Country Code | 593 |