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Popular Culture
Popular art
All expressions are part of our common identity, for example.
The Ceramic Figures are made in Azuay
The Embroidery of Zuleta are made in the south of Ibarra.
The Panama hat (Sombrero de Paja Toquilla) are made in Montecristi.
Roots
Our Ecuadorian popular culture is very varied and is expressed in crafts, foods, myths, legends, languages, dialects, medicines, religion, etc.
Popular food
Another expression of our diversity is the great variety of dishes, local and regional food, and the different ways of eating.
A lot of fish and plantains are eaten on the coast.
In Azuay they eat a lot of mote pillo.
In the Sierra they eat mainly on potatoes and corn.
Popular Holidays
We have many popular festivals that are celebrated with variations in each region, for example the carnival in Ambato is called "Fiestas de las flores", other examples of festivities are:
The Inti Raymi, the Mama Negra or Corpus Christi.
Civic dates: the foundation of Guayaquil, Quito or Cuenca.
With the sacred history or the rituals of the Church such as: Easter, Christmas, New Year, Eve, Day of Death and Carnival.
Myths and legends
They are the stories and practices that are kept in popular memory, they are transmitted orally from generation to generation. They refer to the origins of families, towns, diseases and ways of curing them, such as: ghosts, the dead that are resurrected, goblins and sorcerers.
Religiosity
The people of our country are still mostly Catholic that have devotion to "La Virgen del Quinche", located in Quito, "La Virgen del Cisne" in Loja, or the "Sagrado corazón de Jesús" in Ecuador, there are also people who dedicated to "Jesús del Gran Poder" or "Cristo del Consuelo."
There are also women on the altars, for example: “Mariana de Jesús” and “Narcisa de Jesús”.
Popular Medicine
They are medical knowledge transmitted by tradition. They use natural elements for the healing of physical and spiritual illnesses. For example:
In the coast, the Shamanic cures are: Tsachilas and Chachis.
In the Andean region, the luyeras or yachac are: medicinal herbs to cure "mal de ojo"
In the Amazon, the shaman is called a curaca that uses the properties of plants (quinine).
