Don Victor

The Man of Viche. Our vigilante and a trip with a great smile. The paper his is holding is a wedding invitation to a house with the zip code 90210 (think he´s going?) Viche is an almost purely Afro-Ecuadoran community...I think I am going to try to start a Vit D-Calcium campaign there and in the other Afro communities. (cloud forest = no sun)

The Animals Are Small and Numerous (AKA Endemic...)

May 19th 2008
La Y de la Laguna is a community of about 30 families situated on a hill overlooking a rapidly vanishing megadiversity zone. Its heart gives rise to two sopping trailroads, in the form of a ´Y´, falling towards about 12 communities known as ¨Al Dentro.¨ It also overlooks a distinctly ´Y´ shaped laguna. Thus begins my confusion concerning what has been my home the last month, and where ... read more

South America » Ecuador » North » La Y de la Laguna

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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