The Sweet Tongue: How Ecuador’s Andes Created a Language of Its Own

In Ecuador’s highlands, a seamless mix of Kichwa and Spanish creates a language that bends grammar, adds melody and goes ...
National Geographic news

Preserving the age-old traditions of the Zuleteños in the Ecuadorian Andes

Around the grounds of Hacienda Zuleta, the local Andean community works across a range of initiatives to tell the story of their ancestors and celebrate century-old traditions. The Hacienda Zuleta ...

Sacha Lodge’s New 13-Day Expedition Solves the Hardest Problem of Trying to Plan a Luxury Trip to Ecuador

Forgo the usual planning headaches. Sacha Lodge’s 13-day Ecuador Diverse Tour seamlessly connects the Galápagos, Amazon, and ...
Hyperallergic

Why One Ecuadorian Town Has Three Panama Hat Museums

CUENCA, Ecuador — The cool breeze in Cuenca, a city nuzzled in the Ecuadorian Andes at 8,000 feet elevation, blows through its cobblestone streets, rustling the skirts of indigenous women who wear ...
EurekAlert!

A new scorpion species adds to the remarkable biodiversity of the Ecuadorian Andes

A new species of scorpion Tityus (Atreus) crassicauda has been discovered from the extraordinarily biodiversity rich region of the Ecuadorian Andes. The intriguing new species is classed as medium ...
University of Vermont

From the Classroom to the Cloud Forest

Photo: Gabe Johnson A rugged mountain-and-valley landscape, the Intag region is remarkable for its cloud forests—lush ...
Miami Herald

Rare ‘woolly’ creature - with odd sonar tool on face - is discovered in eastern Andes

Much of what is known about the species has been learned from preserved specimens rather than fieldwork, researchers said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Throughout the cloud forests of the Ecuadorian Andes ...