Morteros históricos en las construcciones de Quito de los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII

The objective of this article is to deepen the characterization of the coating mortars in the colonial architecture of Quito in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. It is assumed that during the colonization there were local and European contributions to the construction of the religious architecture of this city, the results that are now in sight are testimonies of this process. The analysis of the compositional characteristics of the mortars, whose samples come from the buildings that we know today, contribute to somehow perfect the puzzle of history, still incomplete, since the destruction caused by earthquakes, and especially restoration or building enlargement have left their traces on these buildings.