Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas province was created in 2007 from territory previously belonging to Pichincha province. It is named after the indigenous Tsáchila people also known as Colorados. It has only two cantons, La Concordia and Santo Domingo, with Santo Domingo serving as the provincial capital. The province is located in northwestern Ecuador along the western Andes mountain range at an altitude of 625 meters above sea level, 120 km from the coast.
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Santo Domingo de Los Tsáchilas is a Province in the Republic of Ecuador
Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas province was created in 2007 from territory previously belonging to Pichincha province. It is named after the indigenous Tsáchila people also known as Colorados. It has only two cantons, La Concordia and Santo Domingo, with Santo Domingo serving as the provincial capital. The province is located in northwestern Ecuador along the western Andes mountain range at an altitude of 625 meters above sea level, 120 km from the coast.
Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas province was created in 2007 from territory previously belonging to Pichincha province. It is named after the indigenous Tsáchila people also known as Colorados. It has only two cantons, La Concordia and Santo Domingo, with Santo Domingo serving as the provincial capital. The province is located in northwestern Ecuador along the western Andes mountain range at an altitude of 625 meters above sea level, 120 km from the coast.
Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas is a province in the Republic of Ecuador,
created in October 2007 from territory previously in the province of Pichincha
The name of the province refers to a local ethnic group, the Tsáchila, also known as the Colorados on account of the custom of men dyeing their hair with paste made from achiote plants. Unique among the provinces of Ecuador, it has only two cantones, La Concordia and Santo Domingo, named after the city of Santo Domingo, which is also the provincial capital. Location Located on the outer flanks of the western Andes mountain range, the province has an area of 3,857 km² at an altitude of 625 meters above sea level, 120 km away from the sea. Bordered north and east by Pichincha, northwest by Esmeraldas, west by Manabí, south by Los Ríos and southeast by Cotopaxi. Northwestern area of Ecuador. men's clothing formed by a loincloth in two colors are blue and white, rectangular, is complemented with the berequé, this is a kind of girdle made from cotton the paniú, corresponds to the clothing that goes on the upper part of the body, it is a piece of cloth that is placed from the left shoulder, in the same way it is made of cotton, it is made of strong colors like red or yellow the Halley, is a relatively long blanket of white color and in the same way made of cotton, which is usually used on the coldest days of the year. women's clothing the dress goes according to his functions in the society and to the duties they wear a skirt that is also adorned by a series of lines a little thinner than in the case of men's clothing. El complemento de su vestimenta es un tejido generalmente de colores que va anudado desde el cuello hasta la espalda, que tiende a ser similar a una de las prendas que usan los grupos étnicos de Colombia. It is presented with a variety of ornaments, among which stands out the bitadé or also known as the handle, usually the custom is based on using two of these in each arm since it is a kind of bracelets that carry ornaments of a multiplicity of colors. it is used at the height of the wrist and the other in the area of the forearm, in that case in the first handle the colors white and blue are used, and usually in the second handle is used more than all the green color. housing their homes are made of Pambil, bamboo cane and straw shawl. The hall was on the outside, covered only by the roof. In the background, the typical house without windows, because they were reserved and did not want to be observed. The house did not have any division and the rooms of the parents and the children and the kitchen occupied the same space. A house for a family Táchila of eight members has about 8,000 toquillas; the hall, 6 500. The normal height of the house is five meters and the roof is located in such a way that the rainwater does not affect it. The construction of the structure takes about a month, with the workforce of 4 people.