Ecuador – Local College Explorer

Ecuador Shopping, Culinary, and Accommodation

May 13, 2022May 13, 2022 localcollegeexplorer

Shopping Overview Beautiful souvenirs are wood carvings, colorful tiles, woolen carpets, hand-woven blankets and other textiles, baskets, leather goods and shigras (shoulder bags). Mazápan are painted and varnished figures made of bread dough, which family members traditionally gave to their deceased as food for the hungry soul in the grave. Today, the figures are used […]

Ecuador Brief History

October 27, 2021October 27, 2021 localcollegeexplorer

PREHISTORY Located in the center of the region where the megalithic superior civilizations were born and developed, Ecuador presents among the most remote finds of its archaeological areas the dolichocephalic skull of Punin, very similar to the Brazilian race of Lagoa Santa: it is deduced that the first population of the region is due to […]