festivities

festivities

1. PASEO DEL CHAGRA – MACHACHI (JULY 19)

   • Tourists with horse riding skills may participate in Ecuador’s popular rodeo, a roundup and herding ofGanado Bravo, or “fighting cattle,” from the 4000-meter high plateaus of Cotopaxi National Park. Among the challenges is locating the bulls and, of course, wearing down their resistance to be herded down to the haciendas and ranches in the valleys below.

2. MAMA NEGRA – LATACUNGA

   • One of Ecuador’s most colorful and popular holidays, theMama Negra integrates the Spanish, Incan, Aymaran, Mayan and African cultures, and in recent years, the gay culture as well. The celebration, held on the second Saturday of November, is a fascinating event: a mixture of divergent traditions and a public celebration of civic pride.

3. VIRGEN DEL CISNE CELEBRATION IN LOJA

   • Fiesta de la Virgen de El Cisne is perhaps Ecuador’s most remarkable display of religious devotion. Known for its arduous pilgrimage and solemn adoration, the most famous of these celebrations begins on August 16th in the small town of El Cisne in the southern province of Loja.Cathedral where celebrations with fireworks, dance, and music take place. She is returned to El Cisne in November.

4. INTI RAYMI – OTAVALO, COTACACHI

   • The “party of the sun and harvest” is one of the most purely ancestral events in Ecuador. The locals seek out rivers, springs and cascades when the summer solstice arrives on June 21st for a physical and spiritual cleansing. This functions as a regenerative reunion with nature’s forces, and reinforces the hope of fertile harvests.

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