Kichwa community customs

It would be an endless list of customs that Otavaleños have, we will start with one of the most important of all, the traditional celebration of Inti Raymi, or festival of the sun for the harvests of the year, here the Otavaleños celebrate a change, or an update of what they are in thinking, living, acting, to improve for the year that begins. It is a really thought custom, and I would believe that the world if it analyzes it, could have this party as its own, to preserve mother nature and give thanks for all the fruits given.

They love to take advantage of every element of the earth using it for various occasions, such as chicha, a liquor, fermented by 7 grains of corn, they take advantage of the festivities that take place in September and October to value this fruit that germinates during those months of the year. , They accompany it with potatoes, mote and fried pork.

Otavaleños also have a long tradition of being merchants, before they developed this activity subject to the payment of tributes in gold, beadspreads and white bone beads, it is here where they forge their future as weavers; threading blankets and ponchos, this being the main source of income, from the market in the town of Otavalo.