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Santa Isabel

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May 8th 2011
To call Santa Isabel beautiful, breathtaking, and spectacular would be to understate this small town that overlooks a wide valley at 4500 feet in the Andes Mountains. Once again, our pictures cannot capture the color and the depth of what we saw and felt. You also can't really show the lack of pollution; the smell of clean air, no haze in the air, the quiet nights, and the endless gauze of s ... read more

South America » Ecuador » South » Cuenca

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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