| January |
|
Date:
January 1
Celebration: New Year’s
Place: The whole
country
|
Date:
January 6
Celebration: The Three
Wise Men
Place: The whole
country
|
|
Date:
January 6
Celebration: Women’s
rule
Place: Onzole
(Esmeraldas).
|
|
| February |
|
Date:
February 1
Celebration: Our Lady
of Charity
Place: Mira (Carchi).
|
Date:
February 12
Celebration: Day of
the East
Place: Mira (Carchi).
|
|
Date:
February 12
Celebration:
Galápagos Day
Place: Galápagos
|
Date:
February
Celebration: Pottery
Fair
Place: La Victoria -
Cotopaxi.
|
|
Date:
February
Celebration: Fair of
the Flowers and the
Fruits
Place: Ambato
|
Date:
February
Celebration: Our Lady
of the Holy Water
Place: Tungurahua
Springs.
|
| March |
|
Date:
March 2
Celebration: Cane
Festival
Place: Atuntaqui.
Imbabura
|
Date:
March 19
Celebration: Feast of
Saint Joseph
Place: In several of
the country’s
provinces
|
|
Date:
March
Celebration: Festival
of the peach, fruits
and handicrafts
Place: Gualaceo -
Andes
|
|
| April |
|
Date:
April
Celebration: Holy Week
Place: Throughout the
country
|
Date:
April 21
Celebration: Feast of
Riobamba
Place: Riobamba
|
|
Date:
April 28
Celebration: Feast of
the Chota
Place: Archidona -
Napo
|
|
| May |
|
Date:
May 1
Celebration: Labor Day
Place: the whole
country
|
Date:
May 1
Celebration: the Lord
of Good Hope
Place: Bolívar
-Carchi
|
|
Date:
May 11
Celebration: Puyo
Fair
Place: Pastaza
|
Date:
May 24
Celebration: Andean
Tourism Day
Place: the whole
country
|
|
Date:
May 24
Celebration:
Anniversary of the
Battle of Pichincha
Place: Pichincha
|
|
| June |
|
Date:
June 14
Celebration: Corpus
Christi
Place: Cuenca,
Pujilí, Salasaca,
Saraguro. Azuay,
Cotopaxi.
|
Date:
June 28 – 29
Celebration:
Representation of the
black and white
president among the
fishermen
Place: Manabí.
|
|
Date:
June 28 – 29
Celebration: Saint
Peter and Saint Paul’s
Day
Place: Cayambe.
Pichincha
|
Date:
June 24
Celebration: Saint
John’s Day
Place: Imbabura,
Chimborazo
|
| July |
|
Date:
July 3
Celebration:
Cantonizing of Santo
Domingo de los
Colorados
Place: Pichincha
|
Date:
July
Celebration:
Festivities
commemorating the
founding of Guayaquil
Place: Guayas
|
|
Date:
July 16
Celebration: Our Lady
of Carmen
Place: Zamora
Chinchipe, Guayas.
|
Date:
July 25
Celebration: Feast of
the Chagra in
Machachi
Place: Pichincha
|
| August |
|
Date:
August 5
Celebration:
Independence of
Esmeraldas
Place: Esmeraldas
|
Date:
August 7
Celebration: Our Lady
of the Snow
Place: Sicalpa,
Chimborazo
|
|
Date:
August 10
Celebration: First
Shout of Independence
Place: the whole
country
|
Date:
August 14
Celebration: Our Lady
of Sorrows
Place: Chota Valley
(Imbabura)
|
|
Date:
August 15
Celebration: Beginning
of the procession of
Our Lady of the Swan
Place: Loja
|
Date:
August 16
Celebration: Saint
Jacinto’s Day
Place: Yaguachi
(Guayas).
|
|
Date:
August 25
Celebration: Prawn
Fair
Place: Santa Rosa (El
Oro).
|
|
| September |
|
Date:
September 2 – 9
Celebration: Feast of
the Yamor
Place: Santa Rosa
(El Oro).
|
Date:
September 8 – 14
Celebration: Feast of
the Jora
Place: Cotacachi.
|
|
Date:
September 20
Celebration: the
Banana Fair
Place: Machala
|
Date:
September 24
Celebration: Our Lady
of Mercies
Place: several of the
country’s provinces
|
|
Date:
September 28
Celebration: Festivity
of the Lakes
Place: Ibarra,
Imbabura
|
|
| October |
|
Date:
October 9
Celebration: Guayaquil’s
Independence Day
Place: Guayaquil -
Guayas
|
Date:
October 12
Celebration: Montubio
Rodeo
Place: Vinces (Los
Ríos)
|
|
Date:
October 18
Celebration:
Portoviejo Fair
Place: Manabí.
|
Date:
October 29
Celebration: Pendoneros
Place: Imbabura
|
| November |
|
Date:
November 2
Celebration: All Souls’
Day
Place: Tungurahua
Ambato.
|
Date:
November 3
Celebration:
Independence of Cuenca
Place: Cuenca - Azuay
|
|
Date:
November 4
Celebration:
Cantonizing of Manta
Place: Manta - Manabí
|
Date:
November
Celebration: Lord of
the Bull
Place: Girón
|
|
Date:
the Saturday closest
to November 13
Celebration: the Black
Mother
Place: Latacunga.
|
Date:
November 21
Celebration: Our Lady
of the Quinche
Place: Pichincha.
|
| December |
|
Date:
December 1 – 6
Celebration: Quito
Festivals
Place: Quito -
Pichincha
|
Date:
December 24
Celebration:
Procession of the Holy
Child
Place: Cuenca - Azuay
|
|
Date:
December 24
Celebration: The Holy
Child of Isinche
Place: Autro -
Cotopaxi
|
Date:
December 31
Celebration: Burning
of the Old Year
Place: Quito -
Pichincha
|
|
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Tourist calendar of Ecuador
