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Otavalo men all wear long hair in a ponytail under a felt hat. You see them as buskers in every city in the world playing that haunting Andean music based on the pipes of pan

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Sunday Market

April 8th 2007
Otavalo Market Otavalo is a town not far north of Quito. I went there Sunday morning and came back later in the afternoon by the local bus. The tourist buses unload about 9am and pack up again at 1pm. However, the locals use the animal market to buy and sell what´s important to them and its held on the other side of the river from the tourist market. Otavalo weavers have produced clothes for ... read more

South America » Ecuador » North » Otavalo

The "Republic of the Equator" was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Colombia and Venezuela). Between 1904 and 1942, Ecuador lost territories in a series of conflicts with its neighbors. A b... ... read more

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