*2.1.2 San Jacinto las Palmas*

This place is located toward the high zone of colony Azuay, the southern buffer zone of the Llanganates National Park. It has important remnants of montane cloud forest and includes a mountain range in an easterly direction up to the origins of the Tigre and San Jacinto rivers, forming part of the lands of the San Jacinto las Palmas Association, on its limits with the Zuñag River Basin Ecological Association (**Figure 2**).
