Pucará, Azuay, Ecuador Genealogy

Guide to Canton of Pucará ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, church records, parish registers, and civil registration.

History

 * Pucará had the name of a farmhouse in colonial times.
 * In 1775 it was constituted as an ecclesiastical parish and established as a civil parish in January 1808 as part of the Cuenca Canton.
 * As of September 1852, it is part of the Girón Canton.
 * On January 20, 1945, it became the jurisdiction of the Santa Isabel Canton.
 * The Pucará Canton was founded as a canton on July 25, 1988.
 * The Pucará Canton has a population of approximately 12,000 people.

Civil Registration

 * There are no online records for the Pucará Canton.

Parish Records

 * 1565-2011 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Cemeteries

 * Cementerio de San Rafael de Sharug

Urban Parishes

 * San Juan Bautista de Pucará
 * San Rafael de Sharug