This document provides information about traditional rodeos or "detours montubios" held in Ecuador. It notes that these events showcase the customs and skills of cowboy culture. Teams from different areas compete in skills like roping and riding. The rodeos celebrate local estates and communities. They occur in October in Salitre Canton and involve skills displays by cowboys and their accompanying queens. Firearms are sometimes used ceremonially. The events also feature rhyming verses called "amorfino" sung by participants.

1. TEACHER:
NAMES:
DATE:
Zoilaa Guaita
Shirley Robles
Karina guerrero
16/11/2013
AMBATO –ECUADOR

3. • THE DETOUR MONTUBIO
IT IS A TRADITION OF THE COWBOYS OF THE FIELD IN THE
ECUADORIAN COAST, THROUGH WHICH SHOW THE
CUSTOMS AND SKILLS ACQUIRED IN THE DAILY WORK
WITH CATTLE ON THE FARMS WHERE THEY WORK.
FOR THE COLLECTIVE MONTUBIA RODEO IS A
CELEBRATION IN WHICH THE COWBOYS PARTICIPATE
WITH CONVICTION AND JOY, MORE TO STOP UP THE NAME
OF HIS ESTATE OR ASSOCIATION THEY REPRESENT, THAN
BY WINNING A TROPHY AND A CASH PRIZE .

4. • THE DETOUR OF SALITRE
DETOURS ARE HELD IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE ECUADORIAN
COAST IS SALITRE CANTON AND THE DATE IS OCTOBER 12, WHICH
COMMEMORATES
THE
DAY
OF
THE
RACE.
GENERALLY SCENARIOS WHERE RODEOS ARE MADE ARE MADE
WITH CANE, MATTE STICK, WIRE, NAILS AND WIRES. THE FLOOR
OF THE ARENA WHERE COWBOYS PERFORM THEIR MANEUVERS
AND SKILLS HAVE DIRT FLOORS.
ATTEND COWBOYS TEAMS FROM DIFFERENT COUNTIES AND
PRECINCTS, EACH TEAM BEING ACCOMPANIED BY A QUEEN,
CALLED CRIOLLA BONITA, AMONG THE SKILLS THAT ARE
BEAUTIFUL CREOLE EXHIBIT SOME STUNTS AND DANCES ON THE
HORSE WHILE IT IS TROTTING HORSES AND BIND WITH EITHER
HAND OR FOOT.

5. • FIREARMS
BY ANCIENT CUSTOM, BY FIRING INTO THE AIR,
COMPETING GROUPS EXPRESSED THEIR JOY AND THEIR
CONFORMITY .WITH THE RIDER PARTICIPANT WHILE
CONDUCTING A GOOD RIDE.

6. • AMORFINOS
ALSO HIGHLIGHTED IN RODEOS AMORFINOS THE PRESENCE OF
WHICH ARE RHYMING COUPLETS THAT SOME PARTICIPANTS
SING OR SAY THEM ALOUD AND WHOSE CONTENT HAS
IMPORTANT MESSAGES OR MORALS SERVE TO AMUSE THE
AUDIENCE..