Ambato

Tungurahua Province · Ecuador

Ambato, Ecuador
Photo: Martín Vasco, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
February for the Fiesta de la Fruta y de las Flores
Budget
$
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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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