Ambato
Good to know
- Best time to go
- February for the Fiesta de la Fruta y de las Flores
- Budget
- $
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
A commercial hub of the central Andes rebuilt after a devastating 1949 earthquake, celebrated each February with the Fruit and Flowers Festival's parades and fruit-mosaic floats. Quintas once owned by writers Juan Montalvo and Juan León Mera survive as leafy museum gardens on the city's edge.
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