It is located in one of the southern valleys of the country and the province and north of Peru, surrounded by beautiful mountain ranges and watered by the majestic river known with the same name: "Rio de Macará", its tributary waters, used for the agricultural and livestock irrigation, characterizing the cultivation of rice, a unique and palatable product for Ecuadorian and Peruvian palates and all those who visit it.
Its peaceful and intrepid people, always ready to fight against the harsh challenges of life and the abandonment by their local authorities and authorities of the country, the immense importance of those who have to see to it and make it emerge, are its people, the of the town that, with its hard struggles and confrontations, has placed it in the privileged place in the views of locals and strangers, friendly people with a high spirit of community service, both within the urban area and accentuated in the rural area, its daily management in the desire to continue living, allows its people to engineer their own sources of work, commercial, agricultural, livestock, domestic, where the commercial relationship with the neighboring country to the south, allows us a better income and thereby overcome the vicissitudes and inclement circumstances in its inhabitants.
It enjoys educational centers of the highest rank, such as, in the first order: The Marist Brothers, with its primary school and secondary and high school, a school to which I owe all my gratitude and affection and my deepest respect, without departing from the admiration that I have for other educational centers; Macará, Santa Mariana y de Jesús Agricultural Technical College, Antonio Borrero College, "Manuél Enrique Rengél" artisan college, which I likewise honor, respect, admire and keep all my gratitude, in its educational day school that bears the same name; and thus, many educational centers, where their children and young people and why not adults, are educated, training to take a step towards a more certain and secure future.
Its people from the countryside, always enterprising, with their tenacious daily effort, in the tasks of the field, supply the raw material for the support of the town or city, such as: corn, peas, beans, broad beans, wheat, peanuts ( peanuts), sarandajas, coffee, lentils in small proportions, because their cultivation is not usual, vegetables of the most exquisite, fruits of many varieties, such as: papayas, sapotes, oranges, soursop, custard apples, avocados, many others, etc. ... they have an education far below that desired by society, due to the carelessness of their leaders and the lack of support from the government and its aid workers.
Macará, city of contrasts, cultured, artistic, entrepreneurial; Their women, like no other, beautiful in their nature, beautiful in their intellect, beautiful in their spirit, are the emblem of the beauty of our people, active, fighters, full of courage fight side by side in the face of the challenges of the circumstances and life.
It enjoys an average temperature, between 15 to 30 or sometimes more, degrees Celsius, which makes it a characteristic of the place, it is located approximately 900 to 1000 meters above sea level, its language is Spanish and of various races , between the white, black, mulatto, mestizos, Creoles or Indians scarcely.
Its important people are the best known as: Dr, Manuel E. Rengél, Dr. Carlos Hidalgo and his brother Estuardo Hidalgo, Prof. Luis Gonzaga Jiménez, Carlos Inostroza and Others. Among the most important are my parents, brothers and a great former colleague and friend, whom I greatly appreciate and remember: Francisco Schmeling Valarezo Campoverde.