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Christmas in Ecuador
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Christmas in Ecuador
By:Emily Eng
What they eat
Food
What they wear
The ranch Christmas dinner will usually consist of roast lamb, baked potatoes, and brown sugar bread. In the cities, turkey is the preferred main course.
For others, there is public gatherings of prayer, hymns, religious poetry accompanied by incense and hot chocolate and cookies. (Hot chocolate in the middle of summer may sound unappealing, but it's the tradition that counts!)
On Christmas Eve, families enjoy the Cena de Nochebuena, which traditionally includes stuffed turkey or chicken, grapes and raisins, salads, rice with cheese, local produce and wine or chicha.
Costumes
What They Do
Colorful processions take place on Christmas Day in Ecuador as the people who live in the mountains dress in their finest clothes and ride brightly arrayed llamas down to the ranches of their employers. But they just wear what we do. The only special things they wear are the bright colors on Christmas Day rather than red and green and they have costumes to wear when they perform at the Pase del Niño Viajero.
Tradition
They always have a tree with two large dolls
underneath. The dolls represents the different regions they're from. One of them represents a doll from the Andes Mountain region and the other one represents the Chola Cuencan from the south of Ecuador.
More traditions is that novenas or house tours begin the holiday season nine days before Christmas. Ecuadorians visit other homes at this time looking at the nativity scenes. Children place their Christmas lists into an old shoe waiting for Papa Noel to visit. On Christmas day the children usually will find new shoes and their presents. On Christmas day the families visit relatives and friends. While we do that all through December and late November. But we don't have those dolls under our trees. We have the regular decorations they do though.