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	Reserva Ecológica Cotacachi Cayapas Turismo Ecológico en Ecuador CODESO
		Reserva Ecológica Cotacachi Cayapas Turismo Ecológico en Ecuador CODESO
		La Reserva Ecológica Cotacachi Cayapas queda en las provincias de Imbabura y Esmeraldas.
		La ciudad de Cotacachi es famos por sus artesanías en cuero.
	www.codeso.com /TurismoEcuador/TurismoCotacachiCayapas.html (260 words)

	Feast of The Jora in Cotacachi 2004 - Art and Culture - InsidEcuador Travel Magazine :: GoEcuador.com
		In the city of Cotacachi, our destination for a weekend outing, the Jora festivities have evolved into a cultural symbol of the town and its inhabitants.
		When we arrived to Cotacachi's central plaza, the smell of the delicious and typical carnes coloradas (seasoned pork), potato omelets and jora filled the air.
		Cotacachi's triathlon consists of swimming the breadth of Lake Cuicocha (3 kilometers), biking from the lake to the town (19 km), followed by a 5 kilometer run.
	www.goecuador.com /magazine/art-culture/jora-festival-cotacachi.html (550 words)

	Cotacachi: A Lake, A Historic City and Bargain Leather Goods - InsidEcuador Travel Magazine :: GoEcuador.com
		The canton of Cotacachi is frequented due to its proximity to Lake Cuicocha and for its authentic and affordable leather goods.
		Lake Cuicocha is located 15 minutes from the city of Cotacachi, on the lap of Mt. Cotacachi (elevation 15,000 ft) and is part of the Cotacachi-Cayapas Ecological Reserve.
		Legend has it that the volcano Cotacachi, which natives refer to as "Maria Isabel Nieves Cotacachi," is the wife of Taita Imbabura (also known as "Manuel Imbabura"), a looming volcano hovering over nearby Lake San Pablo.
	www.goecuador.com /magazine/travel/cuicocha.html (826 words)

	Cotacachi/Planeta.com
		It is a lush region, with spectacular vistas and spring-like temperatures year-round.
		Although the cottage industry production of crafts is generalized to almost every family in the region, the Cotacachi communities of La Calera, and Tunibamba have specialized in the traditional white sandals (alpargatas) with braided and coiled plant fiber soles and wool and cotton textiles, respectively.
		She began investigating the potential of community-based agroecotourism as a mechanism to help promote on-farm conservation of plant genetic diversity with the support of the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute.
	www.planeta.com /planeta/03/0301eccotacachi.html (948 words)

	Chronogram - The Heat on Ecuador - May 2006
		Due to global warming, Mount Cotacachi was the first Andean peaks to lose its permanent ice cap at the turn of the century.
		In 2001, the county's General Assembly declared Cotacachi to be an "ecological county," partly in response to an unpopular bid by a Canadian corporation to open a copper mine in the area.
		We in Cotacachi can pass a resolution to use our resources more sustainably, but other countries have yet to do that." Back at the lake, Sevillano's brother Elio, who runs a restaurant overlooking the lake, takes a more personal view: "Since we've known this area since we were kids, there's no other place for us.
	www.chronogram.com /issue/2006/05/news/index.php (4210 words)

	Cotacachi Canton
		In Cotacachi, the "communities of uptown" are grouped with those of El Topo and the "communities of downtown" are grouped with those of La Calera.
		They live together with the traditional "taking of the park" where they are confronted in front of the astonishment of the others in permanent and symbolic ritual and the cultural alternative that seems to confirm the formerly elegant power of the Indian people.
		The warlike ritual confrontation of the comuneros in Cotacachi's Inti Raymi, until the present time evidences an historical parallel one of connections and relationships that can exist between the Rituals and Reality, of ritual repetitions and symbolic acts of "historical facts", it means, they are the answer to the expression of duality or territorial bipartition.
	www.cotacachi.gov.ec /htms/eng/ciudad/inti.htm (2043 words)

	Sister Cities International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cotacachi as a thriving northern small city (cities in Ecuador include the surrounding population).
		Cotacachi is 20' far from a larger city, Ibarra, that holds a very strong Sister City relationship with Winchester, Kentucky.
		Cotacachi was awarded the Best Practices Award twice (2000 the latest) by the Arab Emirates due to the successful participative process lead among the indigenous people of this area.
	www.sister-cities.org /icrc/cityseek/list/display?recID=36048 (341 words)

	Legal Showdown over Mining and Community Rights in Ecuador
		In May of this year, the Municipality of Cotacachi government, in representation of all township governments of the Intag area of Imbabura Province and affected communities, presented a Constitutional Injunction to annul the Golden 1 and Golden 2 mining concessions totaling 7,000 hectares, in the exceptionally biodiverse Toisan Range.
		The auction was publicly opposed by all 8 township governments in Cotacachi County, local communities, all organizations working in the area, the entire County Council, and the Mayor, Auki Tituaña, a Kichwa Indian.
		Specifically, in the case of Cotacachi County, mining activities of any kind violate the Countys Ecological Ordinance, which prohibits economic activities that are harmful to people and the environment, while promoting sustainable activities and local development.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Action/action45.htm (800 words)

	Turismo en Cotacachi Imbabura Ecuador CODESO
		La Ciudad de Cotacachi queda entre Otavalo e Ibarra en la provincia de Imbabura.
		Cotacachi es conocido por sus artesanías en cuero y lana.
		El cantón Cotacachi cuenta también con una producción agropecuaria, especialmente de productos lácteos, y de exportación flores y espárragos.
	www.codeso.com /TurismoEcuador/TurismoCotacachi.html (233 words)

	Canton Cotacachi >> Culture >> Holy Week
		In Cotacachi, the spaces of civic participation are: The Assembly of Cantonal Unit (AUC), Council of Development and Administration (CDG) and Intersector Committees, in which participate the organizations and the citizenship in a direct way and/or through their representatives.
		In Cotacachi, the ritual step of the femininity can be evidenced with the presence of the "guioneras" (guiders) in the Holy Week.
		From the beginning of the eighteenth century, the colonial period, the mestizo society was being born in Cotacachi.
	www.cotacachi.gov.ec /htms/eng/ciudad/santa.htm (2212 words)

	Cotacachi Ecuador
		The Cotacachi Volcano is located at the Western mountain range, being an integral part of the "Cotacachi-Cayapas" Ecological Reserve.
		To reach the summit, which lies at 4,935m (16,200 feet), the climbers must have some experience in rock climbing and be guided by a professional climber.
		The most common route is called the Cotacachi Ice Carriers and is filled with spectacular rock formation.
	www.otavalospanish.com /html/cotacachi.html (227 words)

	Cotacachi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cotacachi is a canton of Imbabura province of Ecuador.
		Ascendant Corporation plans to raze to the ground the villages of Junin, Cerro Pelado and El Triunfon order to make ground for copper mining.
		In 2000 Cotacachi was declared the first ecological county of South America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cotacachi (109 words)

	Working with local people and governments to create
		Cotacachi is a town and region (Canton) of around 35,000 people in the Andes of Ecuador, about 2 hours north-east of Quito.
		Cotacachi is a region and town located in the Andean north of Ecuador whose communities (indigenous, mestizo and negro) have been actively involved in a participatory democratic process initiated by their indigenous Mayor, Auki Tituana Males.
		Through the participatory political process, the people of Cotacachi unanimously voted for the whole area to be declared a 'Canton Ecologica' and are currently in the process of discussing legislation and projects that would promote this idea on both a local and international level.
	www.rainforestinfo.org.au /projects/anja/anjacoto.htm (1453 words)

	Cotacachi Ecuador
		The Cotacachi Volcano is located at the Western mountain range, being an integral part of the "Cotacachi-Cayapas" Ecological Reserve.
		To reach the summit, which lies at 4,935m (16,200 feet), the climbers must have some experience in rock climbing and be guided by a professional climber.
		The most common route is called the Cotacachi Ice Carriers and is filled with spectacular rock formation.
	www.ecuadorexplorer.com /osi/html/cotacachi.html (227 words)

	Ecuador Bike Tour: Cotacachi
		This group of Inty Raymi merrymakers was marching and dancing up the street about a half mile from the central square as we came into Cotacachi.
		On this evening the men were dancing in the square (alcohol is involved.) Rumor has that occasionally things get out of hand as rival contingents go after one another by trying to beat each other over the head.
		Cotacachi has a pleasant health level of bicycle traffic, especially in the morning when parents take there children to school and friend porter friends around town by two-wheel transport.
	www.ibike.org /ibike/ecuador/pi/6-Cotacachi.htm (261 words)

	Letter by Cotacachi Mayor against mining in the Intag region
		In August 10 of 1996 I became mayor of the Municipality of Cotacachi- local government- by popular mandate, a position which has been ratified a third consecutive time, lasting until January 4, 2009.
		I should also point out that as representative of the multi-ethnic people of Cotacachi and as a son of the Kichwa Indians, we have suffered 512 years of exploitation, racism, and injustices; therefore, there will always be my personal and institutional support in favor of the communities’ position.
		For this reason we presented a Constitutional Injunction to the Constitutional Tribunal to invalidate the mining concessions in the area of Junín (Golden 1 and Golden 2), which we consider were illegally granted to your company by the federal government.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Action/press518.htm (861 words)

	Salon.com News \| The heat on Ecuador (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Top: The Cotacachi volcano, which lost its permanent snow cap at the turn of the century.
		Like many of the Quichua-speaking indigenous people that make their homes at the base of this western Andean volcano, Ramos relies on the mountain for food, water, and spiritual strength.
		But lately, residents of the town of Cotacachi and the 43 indigenous communities that surround it -- some 30,000 people in all -- have noticed changes in their once-familiar environment.
	www.salon.com /news/feature/2006/04/07/ecuador/index2.html (514 words)

	Cheap Hotels in Cotacachi Imbabura book Cotacachi Imbabura Hotels
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	www.kasbah.com /resort_hotels/cotacachi_imbabura_ecuador.htm (376 words)

	Location - Imbabura Province, Cotacachi and Otavalo Markets - La Mirage
		A cathedral undergoing restoration in the town of Cotacachi.
		Famous for it's leather shops, Cotacachi has undergone extensive restoration and is within easy walking distance of La Mirage.
		At Left: The city of Otavalo is famous for its markets run by the area's indigenous people and where one may purchase hand crafted textiles, carved stone objects, and other neat things.
	www.larc1.com /ecuador/lamirage/lm_location.html (214 words)

	MiningWatch > Letter from the Mayor of Cotacachi Cantón, Ecuador, to the Toronto Stock Exchange (unofficial ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On behalf of the Local Government of the Municipality of Cotacachi, we address this letter to you to express a cordial salutation, as well as our best wishes for the successful performance of your important duties.
		The mining concessions obtained by Ascendant Exploration in our territory are illegal and unconstitutional, because the national government never held a consultation with the communities potentially affected by the mining project, as required by Article 88 of the Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador and several international covenants.
		We categorically reject this situation and denounce it as illegitimate and illegal, as it could even lead to the loss of human lives and the eradication of the social peace that reigns in Cotacachi, a Cantón that was declared a “CITY FOR PEACE” in 2002 by UNESCO due to its inhabitants’ qualities and convictions.
	www.miningwatch.ca /index.php?/Ecuador_en/Cotacachi_TSX_en (1214 words)

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		In the last five years, the ice cap on Cotacachi's craggy peak -- there for as long as anyone could remember -- has vanished, leaving her bare and brown.
		Further down, the ravines divide into quebradas, or creeks, that nourish the fields on the mountain's flanks where farmers eke out their living under the glaring equatorial sun.
		Paintings of Cotacachi from the turn of the 20th century show a massive glacier covering almost the entire mountaintop.
	www.climateark.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=54944 (4290 words)

	DECOIN: Defensa y Conservacion Ecologica de Intag
		DECOIN (Organizacion para la Defensa y Conservacion Ecologica de Intag) is a regional organization created to battle perhaps the greatest threat to the forests: the mining companies that have thousands of acres of government-granted concessions throughout the Intag.
		The citizens, legitimate representatives of communities, organizations, and public entities of Cotacachi County, Imbabura Province, Ecuador, who subscribe the present document, do so with the aim of letting the whole world know, and in particular national and transnational mining companies, of our unyielding decision to NOT ALLOW MINING in Cotacachi County.
		· Definitely abstain from granting concessions within Cotacachi County, and revoke those that do not have the authorization of the Municipality of Cotacachi and the consent of the communities that would be affected by mining activities, including exploration.
	www.decoin.org /2005/04/in-single-voice-no-to-mining.html (720 words)

	MiningWatch > Letter from Auki Tituaña, Mayor of Cotacachi County, Ecuador to the British Columbia Securities ...
		On a number of occasions, in official sessions of our local government, we’ve received the unanimous support of all council members to back the legal actions taken by communities against the mining project in the Intag area.
		It is, therefore, irresponsible for anyone to claim that only one or two organizations in Intag are in opposition to mining; without a doubt, it is the majority of Cotacachi’s civil society who oppose deforestation and the destruction of our unique and rich natural environment.
		It is also necessary to inform you that, since June of 2005, the Congressional Civic Anti-Corruption Commission of Ecuador -CCCC- commenced an exhaustive investigation of corrupt procedures having to do with the whole process of mining concessions in the Intag area of Cotacachi County.
	www.miningwatch.ca /index.php?/Ecuador_en/Cotacachi_BCSC_en (950 words)

	Ecuador - Hotels in Otavalo
		It is located in the town of Cotacachi (woodcarving handicrafts town) 90 minutes from Quito and 10 minutes from Otavalo.
		Chorlavi Hostelry is an old farm house from the XVII century completely remodeled and adapted to be a hotel and restaurant.
		It has 54 rooms, and is only 5 minutes from the city of Ibarra and 2 hours from Quito passing through the cities of Otavalo (hand crafts), Cotacachi (leather town) and San Antonio (woodcarving town).
	www.turisvision.com /tours/hotels/otavalo.htm (478 words)

	Runa Tupari (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The lake, with its beautiful crystal waters, has two small islands created by volcanic domes, and has a depth of approximately 200 m.
		With a clear sky during the trek you will be able to see the snow-capped peaks of the volcanoes Cayambe, Cotopaxi and the craters of Cotacachi and Imbabura.
		You will start your hike at 3,100 m and you will reach a viewpoint at 3,500 m-from this point onwards you will descend to the level of the lake.
	www.runatupari.com /ingles/tour2.htm (150 words)

	Las Palmeras Inn - Otavalo Hotel Ecuador Hacienda Otavalo Market
		About a 30-minute drive from Las Palmeras, on the flanks of the Cotacachi Volcano, is the beautiful Laguna Cuicocha (Kichwa for 'Guinea Pig Lake').
		This ancient volcanic crater lake was created after the eruption of Volcano Cuicocha, creating two central islands in the shape of guinea pigs.
		A five-hour trek around the crater ridge, with panoramic vistas of Cotacachi mountain is exhilarating and challenging, justifying a relaxing afternoon massage.
	www.laspalmerasinn.com /htm/activities_itinerary.htm (859 words)

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