CUTE ECUADOR!! Exposición sobre el país de Ecuador, sus tradiciones, costumbre y cultura. Además, música tradicional y límites.... Ecuador (officially the Republic of Ecuador) is a country located in the northwestern part of South America. Ecuador Colombia bordered to the north, south and east with Peru and to the west by the Pacific Ocean. ECUADORIAN CULTURE Ecuador's official language is Spanish, but Quichua - an Incan language - is spoken by the Indian population. Besides Spanish, ten native languages are spoken in Ecuador. English is the most spoken foreign language amongst tourism service providers and professionals. The Afro-Ecuadorians that are present in Ecuador today are famous for their marimba music and many music and dance festivals. Long before the Spanish conquered Ecuador and even before the rise of Incan civilization, the diverse native cultures of the region had rich musical traditions. Music played an important role in the ancient Andean people’s lives and archaeologists have found some very old instruments, such as, drums, flutes, trumpets and other musical artifacts, in ancient tombs. The Ecuadorians have a distinctive type of dress code. The men and especially the woman in each region of Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands can be easily identified by their dress as it is displays specific cultural diversities that are characteristic of that particular region. A major aspect of Indian identity is present in Ecuador. People that are familiar with the native dress can often tell roughly where an Indian is from, based on what they wear. Ecuador has some very tasty and very strange combinations in their cuisine. You can expect to find some lemon marinated shrimps, toasted corn on the cob and a huge variety of pastries filled with all types of different stuffing. As with all other places in the world, Christmas is celebrated in Ecuador. If you want the best and most original Christmas celebration, you should go to Cuenca on the 24th of December where the Pase Del Nino is held. Traditions • Inti Raymi is celebrated on June 24. The Inti Raymi festivals are adorned with multicolored costume Pujilí dancers. Since time immemorial has been held in indigenous communities Party or Inti Raymi corn harvest to thank. *Day of the Dead • Day of the Dead (or deceased). Christian origin, celebrated on November 2, where Indians and mestizos I go to cemeteries to visit their loved and lost. Formerly, there was a tradition to share colada morada and guaguas bread San Pedro and San Pablo.   •San Pedro and San Pablo. Of Christian origin, celebrating the 28 and 29 June, mainly in some towns and cities of Chimborazo, Pichincha, Manabi and Guayas, which consisted of custom jump thatch.

1. LIC. VIVIANA FARINANGO
MEMBERS.- CINTIA RAMIREZ,
NATALY VALVERDE, JOSELYN
ECHEVERRÍA , MIRIAN CACUANGO.
PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY-
IBARRA CAMPUS

2. Ecuador (officially the Republic of Ecuador) is a country
located in the northwestern part of South America
Ecuador Colombia bordered to the north, south and east
with Peru and to the west by the Pacific Ocean.
CHARACTERISTICS OF
ECUADOR
• Ecuador is located northwest of
South America, the area is about
256,370 km 2 and a population of
13 million.
• four natural regions:
- Region coast
- Region sierra .Andes
- Amazon Rainforest .El Oriente
- insular region .Galapagos

3. ECUADORIAN CULTURE
Ecuador's official language is Spanish, but Quichua - an
Incan language - is spoken by the Indian population.
Besides Spanish, ten native languages are spoken in
Ecuador. English is the most spoken foreign language
amongst tourism service providers and professionals.
The Afro-Ecuadorians that are present in Ecuador today are
famous for their marimba music and many music and dance
festivals. Long before the Spanish conquered Ecuador and
even before the rise of Incan civilization, the diverse native
cultures of the region had rich musical traditions. Music
played an important role in the ancient Andean people’s lives
and archaeologists have found some very old instruments,
such as, drums, flutes, trumpets and other musical artifacts,
in ancient tombs.

4. • The Ecuadorians have a distinctive type of dress
code. The men and especially the woman in each
region of Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands can
be easily identified by their dress as it is displays
specific cultural diversities that are characteristic
of that particular region. A major aspect of Indian
identity is present in Ecuador. People that are
familiar with the native dress can often tell
roughly where an Indian is from, based on what
they wear.
• Ecuador has some very tasty and very strange
combinations in their cuisine. You can expect to
find some lemon marinated shrimps, toasted
corn on the cob and a huge variety of pastries
filled with all types of different stuffing.
• As with all other places in the world, Christmas is
celebrated in Ecuador. If you want the best and
most original Christmas celebration, you should
go to Cuenca on the 24th of December where the
Pase Del Nino is held.

5. Traditions
• Inti Raymi is celebrated on June 24. The Inti Raymi festivals are
adorned with multicolored costume Pujilí dancers. Since time
immemorial has been held in indigenous communities Party or Inti
Raymi corn harvest to thank.
*Day of the Dead
• Day of the Dead (or deceased). Christian origin,
celebrated on November 2, where Indians and
mestizos I go to cemeteries to visit their loved and lost.
Formerly, there was a tradition to share colada morada
and guaguas bread
*San Pedro and San Pablo.
•San Pedro and San Pablo. Of Christian origin,
celebrating the 28 and 29 June, mainly in some towns
and cities of Chimborazo, Pichincha, Manabi and
Guayas, which consisted of custom jump thatch.

6. The festival takes place every 23 to 24
September. The central figure of the celebration is
a man disguised as a woman. Black Mama wears
a wig, painted red lips, face and other visible parts
of the body black. Red Dress, embroidered shirt
and brightly colored shawls that changes at every
corner.
*La mama negra
*Festivities Yamor in Otavalo
During Yamor Party, the Otavalo Indians celebrate
the harvest obtained by: corn, barley, wheat,
beans, quinoa, beans, cunt, etc.. The party named
Yamor drink chicha made from 12 kinds of corn.
It is a celebration full of attractions, local music,
cockfights, parades, folk singers, choice of queen
corn, chicha making the Yamor, national
costumes and dances.
*It celebrates the "Old Year"
Typical activities are the manufacture date of
puppets or dolls representing the year that is
ending or a significant person of the year. Before
midnight are common dances culminating in the
burning of the effigy, fireworks and midnight
dinners.

7. Music in Ecuador has evolved considerably over time, and today
modern techno rhythms as outsiders, corridor or san juanito, have
also been merging with native rhythms incorporating electronic
instruments Ecuadorian traditional musical accompaniment
(sanjuanito or techno-techno-parade).
Music from Ecuador
Ecuadorian rhythms are the various musical events arising in the
area of ​​the Republic of Ecuador. This includes many types of
traditional and popular music that evolved in many throughout
history in the current Ecuadorian territory.

8. Julio Jaramillo
("EL nightingale of America"​​)
Singer and songwriter guayaquileño
Luis Humberto Salgado
(Cayambe, 1903 - Quito,
1977),
Moderm Bands