In Ecuador,the ecuadorians celebrate a lot of fiestas.They
celebrate these fiestas by dancing or signing.Each month contains one or more holiday / fiesta. The Ecuadorians, celebrate
these festivals with a lot of enthusiasm. Some of the fiestas are celebrated with foods, drinks, and costumes, but generally
they celbrate their fiestas by parades or religious believes, with music, people, food and alcohol.
Here are a couple of the fiestas they celebrate:
One of the fiestas they celebrate is called "Day of
the dead." On November 2, people from ecuador, bake small figures of people or animals from something called "masapan", or
sometimes bread dough. They take the figures to the cemeteries, and place them on the graves of family members along with
wreaths, and small portions of food and drink.
Another one of their fiestas that they celebrate is called "Corpus
Cristi", they celebrate it the thursday after Trinity Sunday in honor of the Eucharist. This is a dancing fiesta. It is celebrated
in many parts of Ecuador, with indigenasin the Central Sierra. They wear plaster masks, ribbon and feather on their hats.Tey
dance on the streets.
