The Bolivar province is located in central Ecuador. Its main city, Guaranda, is the capital and is located about 4 hours by car from Quito. Guaranda is known for its carnival celebrations, which take place in the weeks before Lent. The carnival traditions include drinking chicha and liquor called Bluebird. Events during the carnival include parades, cleaning communal areas, and traditional dances. The carnival is Guaranda's major cultural festival and a top tourist attraction in February.

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The Bolivar province is at the center of
Ecuador. The main block of the province is
Guaranda city located about 235 km south
of Quito (capital of Ecuador), about 4
hours 30 minutes travel by private car or
bus passengers. From Quito South PanAmerican Highway is taken up to Ambato
Ambato and then-Guaranda pathway is
taken.

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Guaranda is known as the
City of Seven Hills, are
traditional its carnival,
which is celebrated with
several days in advance.
Visitors these days are
encouraged to drink
chicha (traditional drink)
and liquor popular
Bluebird to catch up with
the joyful spirit and
community festivities.

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The word comes from the Latin
carnem levare, meaning 'to remove
the flesh. And it is precisely these
celebrations occur during the three
days of abstinence of Lent. As
expected, anticipating shortages,
excesses did not expect the whole
population. The debauchery
characterize holding carnivals
around the world and our country
could not be the exception. For
centuries the carnival game, with
water to the measured and what is
at hand for not much has been
dragging words like wild, disgusting,
shameless, embarrassing own
demon, rue relic of paganism,
guilty of earthquakes ...

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Usually the program includes over
60 events, among which are: the
parade and the Taita Carnival
Mama, minga cleaning in Central
Park and in the streets May 15,
Red, October 9, Montúfar, El Niño
and market November 10. During
the holidays the guarandeños kill
chickens, guinea pigs, rabbits and
pigs, key ingredients of the most
exquisite dishes that delight the
palate of locals and city extraños.
Aparte Guaranda you can visit
some nearby villages such as San
José San Miguel, Chillanes the
Huayco recognized for their strong
faith and archaeological wealth of
Chimborazo, where guitars and
fireworks are made.

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Guaranda Carnival is the
"Festival" of the city and the
province. Guaranda shines in
this authentic cultural
expression of deep popular
tradition that keeps
zealously, with affection and
generosity being dignda be
accessed. The carnival is
held in the month of
February makes Guaranda is
one of the cities most visited
by domestic and foreign
tourists. Several previous
compare, traditional dances
and festive air with water
before the game, serpentine,
talc, eggs, coupled with
typical food and nice liquor
called "Blue Bird".

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It is said, and must have
been, in the second half of
the last century and three
or four decades of this, the
lords their laborers to
landowners tried to
"Taitico" ostentatiously
came to town, one or two
days before Carnival
(Sunday), mounted on his
best horse, leading a row of
chagras and Indians of the
hacienda leading either in
asémilas or on their backs
"raw material" that would
become the succulent
dishes for family and
friends "taitico

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It is a spirituous liquor distilled
in pot stills and redistilled
containing syrupy guarapo to
evaporation, allegedly mixed
with chicken field ripe fruit,
mainly bananas and anise. It is
a premium brandy mixed with
anethole and small crystals of
potassium permanganate to
give it that blue litmus
colorcito. This liqueur is
produced in the region of
Echeandía which is a province
located in the subtropical zone
Bolívar.