Paltas Canton is located to the south of Loja city and is one of the oldest cantons of province of the same name. It was named after the Paltas, a community who used to live over the new city now called Catacocha in Ecuador.

Shiriculapo it is a pick of the mountain which holds the capital, Catacocha. A nice temperature but mostly foggy during night, even though down the valley of Casanga, Macandamine, Yamana, Playas y Naranjo has a temperature that goes over the normal at its capital.

4°3′0″S 79°39′0″W / 4.05000°S 79.65000°W / -4.05000; -79.65000