History of Funes

these lands and camped in the region above the river Angasmayo. These places were instructing Christian Mercedarians and Dominicans, who helped guide them with knowledge important region of the country of "the lords of the moon", or Quillasingas.

From the beginning had the support of the chiefs and other indigenous and Spanish authorities governing the different places visited. It was both an appreciation of these two prominent Jesuitanos come from Ecuador and Spanish origin, which the commissioners and council gave them all kinds of support, and the owners or indigenous landowners gave them large tracts of land for them not to leave the place and cooperate to regional acculturation.

So the estates of Funes, Capuli, Iles and Chillanquer in Yacuanquer were owned by the Jesuits. The year was 1616 and an auspicious day for the birth of a new town, on June 2, the inhabitants of what today are the municipalities of Funes, Iles, and Yacuanquer Imues. Father Funes and Vice Lucas Miguel Tellez's father, decided to found a town that is the seat of a prosperous future and people. The site was chosen and the charter, document researched by historian Dr. Guillermo Narvaez Dulce, in the National Archives of Quito (Ecuador)