It is important to point out that before the Spanish conquest, the carnival celebrations were organized according to the solar cycle and the agricultural calendar. The CATHOLIC church then integrated those of the indigenous communities with their own parties. Today, they are a mixture of indigenous beliefs and traditions based on the Catholic faith.
Follow all kinds of parades, processions, masses or pilgrimages. The most important festival is the carnival, whose local specialty is filling water balloons and wetting family and friends. You can see wet people everywhere and in that period the water sources are sensation.
According to the Provinces, the festivities are different, you can splash water, flour, bitumen, eggs ... It is the city of Guaranda where the carnival festivals are the most important.
The parades are rich in colour, we can live dances, traditional costumes, traditional foods and why not participate in a village festival.
The beaches during the Carnival festivities are quite busy, reservations are well in advance.