Our Weekend with Ecuadorians
April 13th 2011 Given our jobs teaching small children who speak a different language, we now cherish long weekends like they're pure gold. This past weekend, we got a four-day stretch, thanks to Cuenca Foundation Day. On April 12, 1557, explorer Gil Ramirez Davalos founded a Spanish settlement on the site of the destroyed Incan city of Tomebamba (likely inspiration for the legend of El Dorado). A mere 454 yea
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