OTAVALO, ECUADOR MOST FAMOUS MARKET

Otavalo is the Valley of Dawn, home to a famous indigenous community: the Otavaleños. In fact, as is often the case in the aboriginal communities in the highlands of Ecuador, the generic term Otavaleño actually embraces a wide range of indigenous groups. They are distinguishable from one another through division of labor and by certain styles of typical dress, being thirty-seven indigenous groups in the eight suburbs of the city of Otavalo (two of them urban), that make up the region's center. The market is a melting pot which brings together the Indians, the whites and the mestizos en masse. Indigenous people who at dawn take ponchos, blankets, wraps, mats, fans, blankets hats or their small crop of corn, black beans, broad beans, pumpkins, geese, quinoa, mellocos (a small potato-like vegetable), barley or potatoes.

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