Gabriela Arguello, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito

gabyarguello@hotmail.es

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Abstract

The indigenous communities that remained settled within the perimeter of the city of Quito, or in its hinterland, have played a crucial role in the construction and maintenance of the city in the first half of twentieth century. During the process of urban development, these organizations were absorbed and overlooked in the public sphere. They represent a significant contingent of indigenous labor that built public works and provided the conditions necessary for the urban space to exist. In the case of Llano Grande, a community located in the northeastern part of Quito, a substantial portion of its population specialized in the city’s sanitation service. Using the case study of this community in the first half of the 20th century, this article provides an insight into the primary source research on municipal sanitation workers in Quito and how the labor force was provided to the city.

Keywords: Quito, Llano Grande, indigenous communities, public works, sanitation service.

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Carlos Espinosa, USFQ

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Archival City Quito-USFQ encompasses three pillars: the digitalization of urban archives, GIS mapping of the uses of urban space and Unity based 3D modelling of historical cityscapes.  All three of these features place the project squarely in the field of the digital humanities, which lies at the intersection of digital technologies and the humanities, including history (Gardiner and Musto, 2015).  This data paper focuses on the third pillar, the 3 D construction of Quito in the Inca era, entitled Quito 1532. Technologically, the 3 D model combines NASA relief maps, Google Earth, aerial drone-based photography, the Unity 3D gaming engine, Maya graphics and Render-Blender architectural apps. The panoramic environment generated is interactive, permitting an exploratory tour of Quito on the eve of the Spanish conquest.

Keywords: Ecuador, Quito, Inca era,  archives, archeology, 3D modelling

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Gabriela Arguello, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito gabyarguello@hotmail.es

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The Law on Commune Organization and Regime was passed in Ecuador in 1937. This Law gave rise to the legal incorporation of civil society organizations, regularly linked to indigenous and peasant communities, under the label of comunas (communes). This legal framework fostered a series of administrative procedures between the communes and the State, which resulted in the creation of documents and the formation of the National Archive of Communes. These organizations and their documentary collection were under the administration of the Ministry of Social Security and Labor between 1937 and 1973, the period in which this research is framed. Thereafter, responsibility for this subject fell to the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, which is where the archive is currently held. This article offers an approach to this repository in order to trace a thread of its history and to analyze its documents and the role that the indigenous communes had in the context of the urban development of the city of Quito.

Keywords : Ecuador, Quito, Archives, Communes, Urban development

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Santiago Cabrera Hanna (Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador)

Natasha Sanmartín Monteros (Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador) 

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The Centro Católico de Obreros de Quito (CCOQ) is one of the oldest workers’ organisations in Quito. It was founded on March 18,1906 by a group of conservative intellectuals under the principles promoted by the Rerum Novarum (1891) issued by Pope Leo XIII. The CCOQ’s archive contains records of the association’s activities over 116 years, that is from 1906 to 2022 (membership registers, accountancy books, magazines, documents on mutual and cultural activities, posters, etc.). This rich documentary collection has great relevance for the study of the social memory of both Quito and Ecuador. To prevent these archives from damage and risks of natural catastrophes, an action to preserve them has been conceived and will be described in the following pages. It is part of a larger project focused on the recovery of the documentary heritage of workers’ and trade union organizations in the city of Quito.

Keywords: Ecuador, Quito, workers’ associations,  catholic action, private archives

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Jeroen Guillermo Derkinderen Lombeyda
Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito derkinderen.jeroen@gmail.com

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The location of Quito, Ecuador’s capital city, amidst several snow-capped volcanoes has attracted travellers, scientists and mountaineers over the centuries and led to the development of a thriving mountaineering community from the middle of the 20^th century.  The city has very diverse mountaineering collections that have been kept by federations, clubs, and mountaineers. To understand the scope and concerns of each of these collections, I visited a federation that functions on the provincial level (AEAP), a club archive (Nuevos Horizontes) and a family collection (Meza).  None of these collections has been formally included in institutional archives, and thus they have remained out of the scope of researchers. As a part of Archival City project, this data paper contributes to better comprehension of Quito’s social and environmental history through a leisure activity.

Keywords: Ecuador, Quito, mountaineering, clubs, private archives

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