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Traditions include the preparing of the Incan chicha of Jora (a sour corn beverage) and preparing the national dish of cuy (roasted guinea pig).Many of the people continue the tradition of wearing the costume of the "Cholas Cuencanas" (Mestizos in Native clothes), a unique clothing costume in South America.
In the early period they grew subsistence crops, raised guinea pigs, and were part of trade with the Inca before the latter took over the Andean region in the 15th century. In the sixteenth century, at the time of the Spanish invasion and conquest, the population may have been as high as 155,000.
Cuicocha (Kichwa: Kuykucha 'lake of guinea pigs' or Kuychikucha 'rainbow lake') [1] is a 3 km (1.9 mi) wide caldera and crater lake at the foot of Cotacachi Volcano in the Cordillera Occidental of the Ecuadorian Andes. Its name comes from the Kichwa indigenous language and means "Lago del Cuy" or Guinea Pig Lake in English. It was given this ...
The pig boss, who hails from Cuenca, Ecuador, runs the restaurant out of the Northern Boulevard location of the former Ilusion Tavern with his husband, Marcelo Barrera.
Indigenous people of the Otavalo people, roasting guinea pigs on charcoal.. Prior to the incorporation of the Otavalo people into the Inca Empire in the late 15th or early 16th century, the region north of Quito near the border of present-day Colombia, an area 150 kilometres (93 mi) long by the same width, consisted of several small-scale chiefdoms including the Otavalo, Caranqui, Cayambe, and ...
The guinea pig, locally named "Cuy", is a local delicacy in Ecuador and is served on special occasions in Principal. There are a number of different artisan groups in the town who weave their products and sell them in local stores as well as in fair trade stores in Cuenca .
The traditional 'mestizo' cuisine includes roast guinea pig, chicken, a variety of soups, roasted and baked pork, local fish (Huambi, Cat Fish, Boca Chicas, Cachama etc.), or beef, all of which are all accompanied by rice and cassava, plantain, sweet potato, chonta, or other fruits and vegetables grown locally.
The tradition has a specific reason behind it, though. The goal is to cut down the rabbit population, which is an introduced species and negatively affects the biodiversity of the environment .