| Official Name: | La Troncal |
| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Total Type: | Town |
| Pushpin Map: | Ecuador |
| Mapsize: | 200px |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Ecuador |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Cañar |
| Subdivision Type2: | Canton |
| Subdivision Name2: | La Troncal Canton |
| Area Total Km2: | 10.01 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population As Of: | 2022 census |
| Population Total: | 39600 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Coordinates: | -2.4°N -79.33°W |
| Blank Name: | Climate |
La Troncal is the seat of La Troncal Canton in the Cañar Province, Ecuador.
The region that would become this significant town, was sparsely populated by farmers until the 1950s. The population began to grow in the 1950s, when migrants from Azuay, and the Cañar provinces began to settle in the area in search of new and better job opportunities.[2]
Around the 1990s thanks to the growth of the sugar mill Aztra, migrants from Manabi also began to move in, by which the population was gradually growing in size and importance.