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We note a Catholic school at Catachoha in the southern Sierra. Catacholcha is a small town in Loja Province, the country' southern-most province located along the Peruvian border. Loja is an isolated area of the world. The people of Loja are primarily sdescended from the Palta people. Inca Tupac-Yupanqui conquered the Palta, more by enducements than battle. The town of Loja was founded by the Spanish (1548). The area is arid, but agriculture is possible in the river vallies. During the Inca occupation, the native Palta languge was replaced by Quichua. The Spanish used the native population to mine gold and silver. Mines were located in Catachocha or nearby Zamora and Zaruma. Loja also played a role in the independence movement (1820s). Simon Bolívar, the liberator of the north, visited the city after the famous meeting with San Martin, the liberatot of the south, in Guayaquil (1822). Lojans supported Sucre in the fighting in the region. The do not know much about the school, even when it was founded. It was operated by the Marist Brothers, a Catholic teaching order of French origins. Wec know it was operating in the 1960s. Many Catholic schools in Latin America were private schools in the cities funded by tuition payment, meaning the children were mostly middle- and a few upper0class children who could afford the tuition. The Catachvocha school seems different. Based on how the children are dressed here, they seem to be low-income children looking much like the children attending public schools. Thus we expect the school was funded by contribution from Catholic charities. We have, however, bennunable to find few details about the school. It appears to be abn all boys school. We do not know
how the school coimpared academically to the public schools, but we suspect there were higher academic standards.
Spanish TVE Television did a soecial about the school, 'Entre Loja y Catacocha' (Ctober 25, 2010).
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