Assuay
Encyclopedia Britannica
ASSUAY, formerly the most southern department of Ecuador, in South America. It is now broken up into the two provinces of Cuença and Loxa. Cuença, Loxa, Jaca, and Borga, were its principal towns. Its chief productions were cinchona bark and silver.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 2, p. 734
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