Ecuador
Historical name
La Loma Gorda (The Fat Hill)
Founding Date
Turn of the 18th century
Address
Comunidad la Loma
Classification
Agro-industrial complex
Function-Testimony
Workplace
Access level
Restricted
Current Use
Flower growing
Original use
Tread wheel for making sugar whose production was done at a mill. The water flowed through a canal and down to a wooden machine that turned on a circular belt and the millers would introduce the sugarcanes to be milled and from there the juice would flow through a little canal to the boiler and lime was added until the juice thickened. It was part of the sugar cane complex of the Valle del Chota since the times of the Jesuits and then it adopted the "concertaje" system.
Property kind
Private