Jumandy Caverns

Jumandy Tena

This information is for the tourist who wants to travel to Jumandi Tena .  

• Jumandy Caverns location
  • The Jumandi caverns are located in the province of Napo , between Canton Tena 2 kilometers away (10 minutes) from Archidona .      
• Jumandy Caverns how to get there
  • The best way to get to the Jumandi Caves is taking a bus from Quito to Archidona , in the region of the Ecuadorian East . Buses leave frequently from the bus terminal Quitumbe, in Quito . To get to Quitumbe, visitors have the option of take a taxi or a bus, costs about $ 10 for the first option spending approximately half an hour in this rout, depending on the starting point in the city. To whom wish to save money and want to take the bus, must take the Trolleybus, and arrive at their last stop. Here the traveler must get off and go to the Quitumbe bus terminal . This route is $ 0.25, and this trip in the trolley will last approximately one hour. From the Quitumbe bus terminal, travelers should take the buses that go to Archidona .         
  • Those who go to Jumandy Tena is also a very nice bus route, first going up the Andes and over the mountain pass that is close to Papallacta . From there, the bus descends to the deep valleys in the jungle. In a matter of half an hour, the scenery changes from moor to the dense wooded landscape. It is recommended to take this trip during the day, to appreciate the trip.    
• Jumandy Caverns cost: The trip to Archidona or Tena costs approximately $ 6, and takes about five hours. Most likely for most tourists would be staying in Archidona or Tena, and they can take a taxi from any of these places, to the Jumandi Caves . However, it is possible to get off the bus at Jumandy Caves , because the entrance to the complex is on the route.

Jumandy Caverns Tourist Complex

Las Cavernas de Jumandy is a beautiful and mysterious tourist place Located 2 kilometers away (10 minutes) from the city of Archidona, via Baeza-Quito. The caverns of Jumandy are one of the most outstanding attractions of the Province of Napo. It has facilities such as: Slides (small and large), Natural water pools (small and large). In the upper part it is explained c jumandy faults prices and how to get to the place.      

Jumandy history  

• Jumandy Amazon leader was a great Chief of War,  he was the most prominent historical figure of the Amazon.  
• He commanded the Quijos uprising during which the towns of Ávila and Archidona were burned. It was a libertarian movement destined to eradicate the Spanish presence not only of this territory but of the same Royal Audience of Quito.
• He is a pride for those of us who live in the Ecuadorian Amazon Region to have a hero who covers the brackish edges of coppery America with his immense warrior stature.  
• When the Spanians tried to reach the country of cinnamon, they found a warrior people, the Quijos who were also great potters and farmers. 
• The invaders guided by Andean Indians entered the territory of the Quijos on several occasions, on the third occasion, Captain Ramírez Dávalos founded on May 14, 1550, Baeza of the Holy Spirit of the New Andalusia, henceforth death and destruction of their culture was the only thing that invaders brought to these millenary lands.
• The military and religious Spaniards imposed by force of bayonet and fear, their god and their strange religion on the inhabitants of these jungles.
• The council of elders determined to their warriors that the only way was the expulsion of the Europeans from their sacred land, otherwise their culture, their life, would disappear forever, they saw it thanks to the sacred plants of the jungle like the ayawaska And the natem. 
• This is how the great warrior Jumandy organizes his best men and throws in hand invites all the peoples of the jungle to expel the invaders from their territory, after the success of the first attack the people with more desire for freedom asks that the The struggle spreads throughout the region, the songs of fighting against the invader begin everywhere, but the brutality of the invaders had no limits, thousands of Spaniards arrived from Quito to do justice manu militari, were in arms and in numbers greater than the locals, with the defeat of Jumandi and his best men, capture them and take them to Quito to humiliate them, tie them to a horse and drag them through the streets of the city and then dismerse them and cut their heads, say the chronicles that spent many years exhibiting These skulls of our Amazonian heroes on the outskirts of the big square and thus intimidate the aboriginal population not to reveal themselves against the invader.  
• Jumandy is a leading figure (incomparable) in the indigenous struggles of America, as the projection that he printed to the reinvicating campaign of his race, places him as a great strategist and makes him deserving of a position of honor among the great heroes of the Fatherland.
• Jumandy, this great guerrilla from America who opposed his spears to the arcabuces and crossbows of the proud peninsular.
• In 1578, after having endured the tyranny of the conquerors, the forced indoctrination and inhuman treatment, the natives under the command of Captain Jumandy, burned the cities of Archidona and Avila.
• And although Jumandy died sacrificed for the cruelty of the colonialists, his action urged the independence of America.
• The great warrior Jumandy lives in the heart of the rebel peoples of the Amazon, who do not allow the invading foreigner to plunder their land.