Parque Calderon - Cuenca, Ecuador #1
by Al Bourassa
Title
Parque Calderon - Cuenca, Ecuador #1
Artist
Al Bourassa
Medium
Photograph - Photographic Artworks
Description
Park Abdon Calderon is located in the center of Cuenca between the old and new cathedrals. On the park benches, people meet to converse and absorb its tranquility.
Sitting right smack dab in the middle of the city’s 500-year-old UNESCO area, it was important enough to deserve eight pines that were brought from Chile and planted by President Luis Cordero. The pines surround a monument to Abdon Calderon.
Abdón Calderón was born in Cuenca in 1804. At the tender age of 18, Calderón was one of the heroes of the decisive Battle of Pichincha, fought on May 24, 1822, south of Quito, where revolutionaries defeated Spanish royalists. The battle liberated Quito and secured the independence of the provinces that would soon join to become Ecuador.
The number of times Calderón was wounded in the battle is in dispute (between four and fourteen), but the consensus is that Calderón remained in the line of fire, ensuring that his battalion held firm. He died a few days after the battle. His last words were, reportedly, “I can die happy, because my country is free.”
This digitally altered artwork is derived from a photograph taken Jan 6/16 from between the towers of the Immaculate Conception cathedral in Cuenca, Ecuador, South America nestled in the Andes Mountains.
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August 19th, 2016
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