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The Programa Pueblos Mágicos (Spanish: [pweβloˈmaxiko]; "Magical Towns Programme") is an initiative led by Ecuador's Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR). The program seeks to promote tourism in a network of small and mid-sized towns that represent aspects of Ecuador's cultural heritage, and to encourage sustainable economic development in these communities.
Costa Rica has several variations of the myth, depending on the region. In San Ramón, Alajuela Province, the legend goes that in 1845, a priest named Father Luis Francisco Pérez won 40,000 gold coins while gambling. He then traveled to Nicaragua, and entrusted his gold to his brother. Father Pérez was decapitated while in Nicaragua, and when ...
Urayoán was a Taíno "Cacique" (Chief) famous for ordering the drowning of Diego Salcedo to determine whether the Spanish were gods.. He was the cacique of "Yucayeque del Yagüeka or Yagüeca", which today lies in the region between Añasco and Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
Tumaco-La Tolita gold figure. The Tumaco-La Tolita culture or Tulato culture, [1] also known as the Tumaco Culture in Colombia or as the Tolita Culture in Ecuador [2] was an archaeological culture that inhabited the northern coast of Ecuador and the southern coast of Colombia during the Pre-Columbian era.
This is a list of Ecuadorian provinces by Human Development Index as of 2024, using the 2022 data. [2] The following report is not official, but it is calculated with the official data of the indicators of the index, given by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC), [3] and the Central Bank of Ecuador (BCE).
Ecuador accepted the convention on 16 June 1975, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list. [3] Ecuador has five sites on the list and a further five on the tentative list. The first two sites listed in Ecuador were the Galápagos Islands and the city of Quito , in 1978, which were also the first two sites inscribed to the ...
Que Viene el Coco (1799) by Goya. The Coco or Coca (also known as the Cucuy, Cuco, Cuca, Cucu, Cucuí or El-Cucuí) is a mythical ghost-like monster, equivalent to the bogeyman, found in Spain and Portugal.
The Tunda (Spanish: La Tunda) is a myth of the Pacific coastal region of Colombia and Ecuador, [1] and particularly in the Afro-Colombian community of the Chocó department, [2] about a shapeshifting entity resembling a human woman that lures people into the forests and keeps them there.