El Oro

El Oro

Zaruma

Mining town in the high part of El Oro province, about 1,200 meters up, with a historic center of wooden houses declared a Cultural Heritage of Ecuador in 1990. It has the Santuario de la Virgen del Carmen, a wooden church built from 1912 to 1930, the El Sexmo mine, open for visits, and the municipal museum. It is the town of tigrillo, a dish of green plantain, egg and cheese, served with the region’s high-altitude coffee.