Once the filling-in was complete, the Spanish created one of the city’s first streets along the old sacred route. Along these ravines ran a sacred Inca path, connecting two temples: Yavirag, dedicated to Inti (the Inca sun god) and located atop El Panecillo Hill to the south of the city center, and Hunacauri, dedicated to Mama Quilla (the Inca goddess of the moon) on the hill of San Juan to the north. To create a semblance of order, they filled in many ravines.
Crisscrossed by creeks and ravines, and with a range of different elevations, it wasn’t easy for the Spanish town planners to lay out the classic grid plan that defines so many colonial towns and cities in the Americas. The initial urban development of colonial Quito (founded in 1534) posed a few problems for the Spanish conquistadors. Following the route of what was once a sacred Inca path, it is now known by two names: one referring to the Catholic crosses built along the street, and the other to the president assassinated on it. Calle García Moreno is one of the oldest streets in Quito.
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