# Pomasqui

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'''Pomasqui''' is a village in [Quito Canton](/source/Quito_Canton), [Ecuador](/source/Ecuador). Located {{convert|16|km}} north of [Quito](/source/Quito), and {{convert|6|km}} from the equator, it is on the road to [Ciudad Mitad del Mundo](/source/Ciudad_Mitad_del_Mundo). The village's main plaza, Plaza Yerovi, features two churches, the Church of El Senor del Arbol ("the Lord of the Tree"), as well as the parish church, which contains some religious paintings which are considered odd. [Santa Clara](/source/Clare_of_Assisi) is the [patron saint](/source/patron_saint) of Pomasqui. Dia de Santa Clara and the fiesta of El Senor del Arbol are both celebrated in July.<ref name="RachowieckiPalmerlee2003">{{cite book|last1=Rachowiecki|first1=Rob|last2=Palmerlee|first2=Danny|title=Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4KQbiA1T-MEC&pg=PA123|accessdate=20 July 2012|date=1 August 2003|publisher=Lonely Planet|isbn=978-1-74059-464-6|pages=123–}}</ref> The economy features a shoe industry, which uses parts of the [maguey](/source/Agave) plant found in the region.<ref name="The Journal of geography">{{cite book|title=The Journal of geography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6LM2AQAAIAAJ|accessdate=20 July 2012|year=1949|page=229}}</ref> The climate is so dry as to have given it the name of ''Piurita'' ("little Piura").<ref name="Veatch1917">{{cite book|last=Veatch|first=Arthur Clifford|title=Quito to Bogotá|url=https://archive.org/details/quitotobogot01veatgoog|accessdate=20 July 2012|edition=Public domain|year=1917|publisher=Doran|pages=[https://archive.org/details/quitotobogot01veatgoog/page/n52 38]–}}</ref> The southern boundary of the [Cara culture](/source/Cara_culture), extended to Pomasqui.<ref name="SchortmanUrban1992">{{cite book|last1=Schortman|first1=Edward M.|last2=Urban|first2=Patricia Ann|title=Resources, Power, and Interregional Interaction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OH0-W5R4VNcC&pg=PA198|accessdate=20 July 2012|date=30 June 1992|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-306-44068-7|pages=198–}}</ref>

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