Rock and Canealazo

The Sweet and the Sour

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June 28th 2011
First the sweet. Last Thursday was Corpus Christi, a Catholic feast day, that kicked off a week of festivities in Cuenca. Our guidebooks tell us that this holiday absorbed several harvest festival traditions that predate the arrival of Spanish to Ecuador, so even for a pretty Catholic country this celebration seems bigger than usual. We've now seen a lot of holidays here - Carnival, Cuenca ... read more

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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