Banos

Banos de Agua Santa normally referred to as Banos, is a city in eastern Tungurahua Province, in relevant Ecuador. Banos is the second most populous city in Tungurahua, after Ambato, the capital, and is a major traveler middle. It is referred to as the "Gateway to the Amazon", because it's the closing big city still located in the mountains before attaining the jungle and different towns which might be positioned in the Amazon River basin.

Banos is positioned at an elevation of 1,820 metres on the northern foothills of the Tungurahua volcano, whose activity has been characterised by way of frequent powerful ash explosions and lava flows may be visible from Banos. And is being monitored by using the Geophysics Institute at E.P.N. The town is also a Roman Catholic religious center, as a few Catholic believers say that the Virgin Mary regarded nearby a waterfall. So a sculpture of the virgin, referred to as Virgen de Agua Santa, turned into positioned within the cathedral. The history of the metropolis is intimately linked with the especially active Tungurahua volcano. In October 1999, all 17,000+ citizens had been pressured to evacuate the town for weeks.