Jacinto Jijón y Caamaño, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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mayor of Quito
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Place of Birth: Quito, Pichincha Province, Ecuador
About Jacinto Jijón y Caamaño
- Jacinto Jijón y Caamaño was an Ecuadorian historian and politician, born in Quito on December 11, 1890 to Don Manuel Jijón Larrea and Doña Dolores Caamaño y Almada.
- He was the mayor of the city of Quito (the capital of Ecuador) from 1946 to 1948.
- He was a member of the Ecuadorian parliament and a candidate for the presidency of Ecuador.
- He went to school in Quito, where he was taught by Archbishop Federico González Suárez.
- In 1912, he accompanied a fellow pupil, Don Carlos Manuel Larrea, and his own mother to Europe.
- There, he developed his interest in the sciences, and learned English, French and German.
- It was, having collected a large number of books, that he returned to Ecuador and began to utilize his funds to examine pre-Hispanic settlements in the area.As an archeologist, Jacinto Jijón y Caamaño surveyed pre-Hispanic settlement near the town of Manta, mapping the largest structures.
- It was then that he became the first to use the term "Manteño" to describe such settlement.
- Jijón y Caamaño believed that the Manteños operated like a trading ring rather than a kingdom or empire, and drew parallels to the Hanseatic League.He wrote several works, including Quito y la independencia de America: discurso leido en la sesion solemne celebrada por la Academia Nacional de Historia ...
- en conmemoracion del I centenario de la batalla de Pichincha ("Quito and the independence of America: Address delivered at the solemn session held by the National Academy of History ...
- in commemoration of the centenary of the Battle of Pichincha", referring to Quito, capital of Ecuador, and the Battle of Pichincha).
- He also wrote books on archaeological topics, such as the Antropología prehispánica del Ecuador ("Pre-Hispanic Anthropology of Ecuador").
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