Lloa is a rural parish of Quito Canton, Pichincha Province

Pichincha Province

Pichincha is a province of Ecuador located in the northern sierra region; its capital and largest city is Quito. It is bordered by Imbabura & Esmeraldas to the north, Cotopaxi & Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas to the south, Napo & Sucumbíos to the east, and Esmeraldas & Santo Domingo de los...

, Ecuador

Ecuador

Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...

. The seat of the parish, which is the village of Lloa, lies west of the southern part of the city of Quito

Quito

San Francisco de Quito, most often called Quito , is the capital city of Ecuador in northwestern South America. It is located in north-central Ecuador in the Guayllabamba river basin, on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes mountains...

 and approximately southeast of Guagua Pichincha Volcano, surrounded by some foothills of the Pichincha Volcano.

Lloa is a group of indeginous of Formosa living in the southern plain of the island called Taiwan. The city of Chi-Lloa (AKA Chia-yi) was named after the people, but was changed to Chia-Yi after the failure of their resistance to the Chinese occupation in 1500's. The Chinese fled to Taiwan after Manchurian conquered China in 1500's. The resistance had caused the genocide of the entire population, though few of them, especially women, changed their identity and were forced to marry Chinese immigrants.