BAÑOSTUNGURAHUA- ECUADOR

TOURISM AND ADVENTURE ECUADOR DISTRACTION

TUNGURAHUA BEAUTIFUL VALLES BAÑOS AND PATATE

Baños de Agua Santa, is an Ecuadorian city of the province of Tungurahua. It is a major tourist center of the country, is located about 45 minutes from Ambato. He is the head of the canton cantonal Baños has a population of 12,995 people. The most important economic activity Canton inbound tourism. The WWF gave the nominative "A Gift to the Earth"

Baños, is located on the slopes of Tungurahua volcano at an altitude of 1820 meters (m), close to the geometric center of the Ecuadorian territory. It enjoys a pleasant climate almost all year round; despite high humidity. The nationals Sangay and Llanganates parks. They are located on the flanks of the canton.

Baños town is also a center of religious pilgrimage since the hot springs are popularly associated with "miraculous" cures by the influence of dominica community is settled in this area for a long time.

On the same route PATATE adventure !!! ...

For its landscapes, its climate, Patate is a beautiful valley with a fruity aroma, this thirty minutes from Ambato, surrounded by mountains and the Patate river from which it takes its name.

The PATATE Vocablo, means "The exploding thundered," referring to the volcano Tungurahua Mama.

Patate has a warm climate, where one can see, the traditional fruit that this land provides, such as its large vineyards, plantations of mandarins, avocados, passion fruit, babacos, etc. And walk through its charming park decorated with attractive multicolored flowers and trees captivating own place, as its striking colonial houses still built with adobe.

The town of Patate is an ideal site recreational and peaceful rest, from which you can arrange trips to Las Vegas Patate river where a group of old farms and farms is conserved, and where wine distilleries is installed, where one you can taste five varieties of red and white wines.

From Patate you can travel to the parish of Sucre where a small museum of ceramics of Panzalea and Puruhá cultures as its mythical cemetery surprising culture, in the parish Los Andes is can appreciate the great peach crop.

Also from these sites, tourists can go to the National Park Llanganates. Or walk and enjoy nature that has many options such as: Mundug waterfall with a spectacular fall and collected while embedded with fake gold sparks, which are an unforgettable memory that gives us this magical land stones.

But surely devotion to Lord of the Earthquakes, who is very old is the biggest celebration where you can see many cultural characteristics of the sector, paying homage also to his land with flowers and fruits of pleasant and delicious aromas, which together with the beauty of its sacred temple, dedicated to his employer, make this one of the most cherished symbols of progress and development of this beautiful city nestled by mountains.