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The Festival of Fruits and Flowers is held every year in Ambato to commemorate the anniversary of the earthquake that destroyed the city on August 5, 1949, where 6000 people died. The festival was created on June 29, 1950. [12] Although the earthquake was in August, the festival is celebrated in February to fall closer to Carnival.
Ambato Canton is a canton of Ecuador, located in the Tungurahua Province. Its capital is the city of Ambato. Its population at the 2022 was 370,664. [1] The Ambato canton is known as the canton of "Fruits and Flowers" because of its agricultural activities. Annually in February, this canton holds a Fruits and Flowers festival [2]
In an effort to help the inhabitants a festival of fruit and flowers was held on June 29, 1950. The festival was a success and became an annual event that is celebrated each year during Carnaval and is now an important tourist attraction. [20] [21] Ambato was completely rebuilt after the earthquake.
In addition to Cotopaxi, a province in whose capital she was born and grew up, González's family also has roots in other areas in the center of the country such as Tungurahua, where her paternal grandmother Judith Lalama Jaramillo was chosen beauty queen of Ambato in the city's Festival of Fruits and Flowers.
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It is administered by the Municipality of Ambato, which created the Quinta Atocha and formed the botanical garden Atocha-La Liria. The first eucalyptus trees planted in Ecuador in 1849 when President Gabriel García Moreno came on a visit to meet Dr. Nicolas Martinez, are located in the garden, as is the Martínez-Holguín House Museum. [1]
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