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Baños de Agua Santa Ecuador
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The big events here are the occasional
traditional Andes produce fair and the English-spoken film
shown nightly in the movie theater or the town chapel.
However, on weekends and feast days
Baños becomes a
"carnival town". |
Baños waterfalls
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Baños is a valley
surrounded by waterfalls, with a total of 57. The "Virgin's
Fall" is a unique case in Ecuador of a waterfall
within city limits. Another singularly beautiful fall is "El
Manto de la Novia", with its 80 meter height.
However, the most impressive one is "Pailon
del Diablo" or "Rio
Verde", considered to be one of the ten main falls in
the world with its 100 or so meter height. |
| In this beautiful mountain spa, the Andean
forest combines with the high
Amazonian forest, generating an
unimaginable biodiversity, and producing 165 recognized native
species. |
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This Andean village is surrounded by snowcapped volcanoes
and has wonderful thermal springs. |
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The impressive snowcapped
volcanic peaks that surround
Baños are four in number:
Tungurahua,
Chimborazo, Altar and Carihuairazo. |
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