Category Archives for "Cotacachi Events"

Dia de Los Difuntos

 Dia de Los Difuntos   (day of the dead celebration) Most Ecuadorian and Latin American people go to the cemetery and meet at their family plot. This is a community event, flowers, wreaths, fresh painted markers and family history are shared. This is one of our most colorful days to see our town’s cemetery in Cotacachi.  […]

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Nursing Home Christmas Celebration 2011

 What fun and joy visiting these delightful elderly women.  Ages from 80 to 102.  The women were eagerly awaiting our arrival. We danced, we sang and even had a 10 year old boy with us who sang and played the guitar. We gave each woman a new scarf, a warm pair of socks and a […]

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Even Older Folks Love A Party

Cotacachi Nursing Home Christmas Celebration – 2010 Fifteen Gringos packed into a couple of vans bringing coconut pies, homemade cakes, sodas and lots of fresh fruits to the Indigenous Nursing Home. As we approached the front door in our Santa Claus hats – the women were eagerly awaiting our arrival in their Santa hats. The […]

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Ceremony – Day Of The Dead

In Ecuador the holiday is interpreted as a day to “catch up” with the ones who are no longer with us but have a life in a different world. People pack lunches of traditional food, flowers and offerings and head for the cemeteries where they spend the day as a family talking, eating and performing […]

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Spectacular Easter Parade

GOOD FRIDAY IN QUITO, ECUADOR Written and Photographed by Patricia McCormick I had the privilege of witnessing the El Jesus del Gran Poder procession in Quito on Good Friday. It is one of the largest Good Friday processions in the world; second only to Seville, Spain. I was not prepared for how moving the procession […]

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