History of Ancuya

It is known that originally the town was founded and built in a place that we know today as Ancuya, the site is known as Old Town, where there are traces of the original Ancuya once was.

The miracles of the Virgin

Other stories tell that this town's cultural heritage Ancuya his Ssantuario Nariño and the Virgin Patron Saint of the Visitation, is attributed to the virgin many real and true miracles, whose witnesses survive to tell what has happened, it is known in a time of drought there was an invasion of pests mainly locusts or grasshoppers oversized razed crops of sugarcane, coffee, banana and fruit trees, for which a pious lady made the request pest control to be divine and strangely plague was removed.