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"El Cóndor Pasa" (pronounced [el ˈkondoɾ pasa], Spanish for "The Condor Passes") is an orchestral musical piece from the zarzuela El Cóndor Pasa by the Peruvian composer Daniel Alomía Robles, written in 1913 and based on traditional Andean music, specifically folk music from Peru.
La Manga del Cura: In a referendum held on 27 September 2015, 64.2% of the voters voted in favor of La Manga del Cura being incorporated into the Manabí Province. [5] El Piedrero: incorporated into Guayas Province by the Presidential decree in 2017. [6] Matilde Esther: incorporated into Guayas Province by the Presidential decree in 2017 [7]
The most recently created cantons are Sevilla Don Bosco in Morona Santiago Province in 2024; [1] [2] and La Concordia in Esmeraldas Province in 2007, although in 2013 La Concordia was transferred to Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas Province. [3] [4] Below is a list of cantons by province.
Daniel Alomía Robles was born in Huánuco, Peru, on January 3, 1871 [1] to Micaela Robles [2] and Marcial Alomía, a French immigrant. [3]Alomía Robles said in an interview in 1942 that his first exposure to music was when he was six years old when his mother took him to hear mass in Huánuco, and he began to sing along with the chorus. [4]
Cañar (Spanish pronunciation:) is a province in Ecuador.The capital is Azogues.At the time of census 2010 the province had a population of 225,184. [3] It contains the 16th-century ruins of Ingapirca, the best-known Inca settlement in Ecuador and a product of their conquest of the indigenous Cañari.
Cabellera de la Virgen waterfall in Baños de Agua Santa, Tungurahua Province. Regionalization, or zoning, is the union of two or more adjoining provinces in order to decentralize the administrative functions of the capital, Quito. In Ecuador, there are seven regions, or zones, each shaped by the following provinces:
In 2000, the province was the sole remaining majority-indigenous province of Ecuador, with 56.3% of the province either claiming indigenous identity or speaking an indigenous language. [ 3 ] This province is one of the many located in Ecuador's section of the Amazon Rainforest .
An enlargeable topographic map of continental Ecuador An enlargeable topographic map of the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador. Geography of Ecuador. Ecuador is: an equatorial megadiverse country; Location: Western Hemisphere, on the equator. South America; Time zones: Galápagos Islands – Galápagos Time ; Rest of Ecuador – Ecuador Time