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The Pioneer Museum in Cloyne has a good collection of vintage Land O' Lakes Tourism Vacation Guides. These guides portray many of the area businesses from the 1960s to present day. Visit the Pioneer Museum during the summer months or by appointment.
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Including Kashwakamak , Mississagagon and Plevna.
The Pioneer Museum in Cloyne has a good collection of vintage Land O' Lakes Tourism Vacation Guides. These guides portray many of the area businesses from the 1960s to present day. Visit the Pioneer Museum during the summer months or by appointment.
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Includes Skootamatta Lake and Mazinaw Lake.
The Pioneer Museum in Cloyne has a good collection of vintage Land O' Lakes Tourism Vacation Guides. These guides portray many of the area businesses from the 1960s to present day. Visit the Pioneer Museum during the summer months or by appointment.
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Including Flinton.
The Pioneer Museum in Cloyne has a good collection of vintage Land O' Lakes Tourism Vacation Guides. These guides portray many of the area businesses from the 1960s to present day. Visit the Pioneer Museum during the summer months or by appointment.
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The Pioneer Museum in Cloyne has a good collection of vintage Land O' Lakes Tourism Vacation Guides. These guides portray many of the area businesses from the 1960s to present day. Visit the Pioneer Museum during the summer months or by appointment.
Note: Commercial use of this image is prohibited without CDHS permission. All CDHS Flickr content is available for personal use providing our Rights Statement is followed:
pioneer.mazinaw.on.ca/flickr_statement.php
The Pioneer Museum in Cloyne has a good collection of vintage Land O' Lakes Tourism Vacation Guides. These guides portray many of the area businesses from the 1960s to present day. Visit the Pioneer Museum during the summer months or by appointment.
Note: Commercial use of this image is prohibited without CDHS permission. All CDHS Flickr content is available for personal use providing our Rights Statement is followed:
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The Pioneer Museum in Cloyne has a good collection of vintage Land O' Lakes Tourism Vacation Guides. These guides portray many of the area businesses from the 1960s to present day. Visit the Pioneer Museum during the summer months or by appointment.
Note: Commercial use of this image is prohibited without CDHS permission. All CDHS Flickr content is available for personal use providing our Rights Statement is followed:
pioneer.mazinaw.on.ca/flickr_statement.php
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Home of Yellowstone National Park, the Grand Tetons, the Black Hills and Devil's Tower, Wyoming is sparsely settled but it has plenty of big game from elk to buffalo. It is covered with rugged mountain ranges, high mountain lakes, sheer granite cliffs, deserts, forests and prairie, so it is worthy of the name, Cowboy State.
These photos of mine will be published in the Washington Travel and Recreation Guide along with a feature story of mine by one of their writers ! How Cool! I'm excited!
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Want to go on a rustic vacation? This guide has the top 100 spots in the world to travel to.
FESTIVAL DE LA BALSA MANTEÑA
www.salango.com.ec
La tradición cultural en la historia de los pueblos ha marcado su identidad, haciéndola prevalecer a lo largo del tiempo sin dejar que ella muera. Así pasa en las comunas de Salango y Agua Blanca del cantón Puerto López, éstas en su originalidad indígena descienden del Pueblo de Manta Huancavilca, con unos 5.000 años de historia y cultura, cuyos primeros asentamientos poblacionales pertenecieron a la cultura Valdivia, seguida por la Machalilla, Chorrera-Engoroy, Bahía, Guangala y culmino con el Periodo de Integración Regional denominado Manteña.
Los Manteños tenían como principal actividad económica, el comercio, dominando el mar con sus enormes embarcaciones construidas del palo de balsa que les permitía navegar el extenso Océano Pacífico incluyendo las importantes islas “sagradas” como La Plata y Salango, esta última fue la sede de un importante cacicazgo, cuya población tenía como actividad el intercambio y el comercio de productos de la costa pacífica, como textiles, orfebrería y principalmente de la concha Spondylus para fines rituales.
La explotación y comercio de la concha tiene historiales muy antiguos, puesto que en Salango esta actividad aparece desde la época de Valdivia, pasando por Machalilla, Chorrera, Guangala, Bahía, hasta la época Manteña. Los Manteños tuvieron una subsistencia basada en la agricultura, adaptada a las condiciones climáticas de la zona, que se caracteriza más bien seca, salvo en las partes altas donde el nivel de humedad es mayor.
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Festival de la Balsa Manteña in Salango, a small fishing village in the central coastal Ecuadorian province of Manabi. Balsa means raft in Spanish and is also the name of a strong, but light, wood of which many of the rafts are made. Balsa wood is also used as an insulator and for building models, Ping-Pong paddles and surfboards.
Manteño is the name of one of the two cultures that inhabited the central Ecuadorian coastal region from 1000 A.D. until 1534, when the Spanish took over. The other culture is the Huancavila. The names are commonly hyphenated, Manteño-Huancavilca, since the two cultures were contemporaries. The Manteño occupied the coastal region of Manabi, north of the Santa Elena Peninsula up to the coast west of Santo Domingo de los Colorados. The Huancavilcas inhabited the Santa Elena Peninsula. The Peninsula was just declared its own province a few days ago. Last week, the Santa Elena Peninsula belonged to the Guayas province to the East.
Five thousand years ago, the Valdivia culture started using small balsa rafts to fish and conduct long distance trade with northern Peru. The Valdivia culture originated on the Santa Elena Peninsula and is one of the oldest American cultures. They occupied the central Ecuadorian coast from 4000 B.C.-1100 B.C. and are one of the first cultures in the Americas to settle permanently and start making ceramics. During the Manteño-Huancavilca period, there were balsas of all sizes. The most common rafts had five large logs strapped together. Others were constructed with seven or nine logs. Some balsas were even large enough to hold up to fifty people. The smaller rafts were usually used for fishing while the larger rafts were used to transport merchandise and people.
FESTIVAL DE LA BALSA MANTEÑA
www.salango.com.ec
La tradición cultural en la historia de los pueblos ha marcado su identidad, haciéndola prevalecer a lo largo del tiempo sin dejar que ella muera. Así pasa en las comunas de Salango y Agua Blanca del cantón Puerto López, éstas en su originalidad indígena descienden del Pueblo de Manta Huancavilca, con unos 5.000 años de historia y cultura, cuyos primeros asentamientos poblacionales pertenecieron a la cultura Valdivia, seguida por la Machalilla, Chorrera-Engoroy, Bahía, Guangala y culmino con el Periodo de Integración Regional denominado Manteña.
Los Manteños tenían como principal actividad económica, el comercio, dominando el mar con sus enormes embarcaciones construidas del palo de balsa que les permitía navegar el extenso Océano Pacífico incluyendo las importantes islas “sagradas” como La Plata y Salango, esta última fue la sede de un importante cacicazgo, cuya población tenía como actividad el intercambio y el comercio de productos de la costa pacífica, como textiles, orfebrería y principalmente de la concha Spondylus para fines rituales.
La explotación y comercio de la concha tiene historiales muy antiguos, puesto que en Salango esta actividad aparece desde la época de Valdivia, pasando por Machalilla, Chorrera, Guangala, Bahía, hasta la época Manteña. Los Manteños tuvieron una subsistencia basada en la agricultura, adaptada a las condiciones climáticas de la zona, que se caracteriza más bien seca, salvo en las partes altas donde el nivel de humedad es mayor.
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Festival de la Balsa Manteña in Salango, a small fishing village in the central coastal Ecuadorian province of Manabi. Balsa means raft in Spanish and is also the name of a strong, but light, wood of which many of the rafts are made. Balsa wood is also used as an insulator and for building models, Ping-Pong paddles and surfboards.
Manteño is the name of one of the two cultures that inhabited the central Ecuadorian coastal region from 1000 A.D. until 1534, when the Spanish took over. The other culture is the Huancavila. The names are commonly hyphenated, Manteño-Huancavilca, since the two cultures were contemporaries. The Manteño occupied the coastal region of Manabi, north of the Santa Elena Peninsula up to the coast west of Santo Domingo de los Colorados. The Huancavilcas inhabited the Santa Elena Peninsula. The Peninsula was just declared its own province a few days ago. Last week, the Santa Elena Peninsula belonged to the Guayas province to the East.
Five thousand years ago, the Valdivia culture started using small balsa rafts to fish and conduct long distance trade with northern Peru. The Valdivia culture originated on the Santa Elena Peninsula and is one of the oldest American cultures. They occupied the central Ecuadorian coast from 4000 B.C.-1100 B.C. and are one of the first cultures in the Americas to settle permanently and start making ceramics. During the Manteño-Huancavilca period, there were balsas of all sizes. The most common rafts had five large logs strapped together. Others were constructed with seven or nine logs. Some balsas were even large enough to hold up to fifty people. The smaller rafts were usually used for fishing while the larger rafts were used to transport merchandise and people.
FESTIVAL DE LA BALSA MANTEÑA
www.salango.com.ec
La tradición cultural en la historia de los pueblos ha marcado su identidad, haciéndola prevalecer a lo largo del tiempo sin dejar que ella muera. Así pasa en las comunas de Salango y Agua Blanca del cantón Puerto López, éstas en su originalidad indígena descienden del Pueblo de Manta Huancavilca, con unos 5.000 años de historia y cultura, cuyos primeros asentamientos poblacionales pertenecieron a la cultura Valdivia, seguida por la Machalilla, Chorrera-Engoroy, Bahía, Guangala y culmino con el Periodo de Integración Regional denominado Manteña.
Los Manteños tenían como principal actividad económica, el comercio, dominando el mar con sus enormes embarcaciones construidas del palo de balsa que les permitía navegar el extenso Océano Pacífico incluyendo las importantes islas “sagradas” como La Plata y Salango, esta última fue la sede de un importante cacicazgo, cuya población tenía como actividad el intercambio y el comercio de productos de la costa pacífica, como textiles, orfebrería y principalmente de la concha Spondylus para fines rituales.
La explotación y comercio de la concha tiene historiales muy antiguos, puesto que en Salango esta actividad aparece desde la época de Valdivia, pasando por Machalilla, Chorrera, Guangala, Bahía, hasta la época Manteña. Los Manteños tuvieron una subsistencia basada en la agricultura, adaptada a las condiciones climáticas de la zona, que se caracteriza más bien seca, salvo en las partes altas donde el nivel de humedad es mayor.
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Festival de la Balsa Manteña in Salango, a small fishing village in the central coastal Ecuadorian province of Manabi. Balsa means raft in Spanish and is also the name of a strong, but light, wood of which many of the rafts are made. Balsa wood is also used as an insulator and for building models, Ping-Pong paddles and surfboards.
Manteño is the name of one of the two cultures that inhabited the central Ecuadorian coastal region from 1000 A.D. until 1534, when the Spanish took over. The other culture is the Huancavila. The names are commonly hyphenated, Manteño-Huancavilca, since the two cultures were contemporaries. The Manteño occupied the coastal region of Manabi, north of the Santa Elena Peninsula up to the coast west of Santo Domingo de los Colorados. The Huancavilcas inhabited the Santa Elena Peninsula. The Peninsula was just declared its own province a few days ago. Last week, the Santa Elena Peninsula belonged to the Guayas province to the East.
Five thousand years ago, the Valdivia culture started using small balsa rafts to fish and conduct long distance trade with northern Peru. The Valdivia culture originated on the Santa Elena Peninsula and is one of the oldest American cultures. They occupied the central Ecuadorian coast from 4000 B.C.-1100 B.C. and are one of the first cultures in the Americas to settle permanently and start making ceramics. During the Manteño-Huancavilca period, there were balsas of all sizes. The most common rafts had five large logs strapped together. Others were constructed with seven or nine logs. Some balsas were even large enough to hold up to fifty people. The smaller rafts were usually used for fishing while the larger rafts were used to transport merchandise and people.
FESTIVAL DE LA BALSA MANTEÑA
www.salango.com.ec
La tradición cultural en la historia de los pueblos ha marcado su identidad, haciéndola prevalecer a lo largo del tiempo sin dejar que ella muera. Así pasa en las comunas de Salango y Agua Blanca del cantón Puerto López, éstas en su originalidad indígena descienden del Pueblo de Manta Huancavilca, con unos 5.000 años de historia y cultura, cuyos primeros asentamientos poblacionales pertenecieron a la cultura Valdivia, seguida por la Machalilla, Chorrera-Engoroy, Bahía, Guangala y culmino con el Periodo de Integración Regional denominado Manteña.
Los Manteños tenían como principal actividad económica, el comercio, dominando el mar con sus enormes embarcaciones construidas del palo de balsa que les permitía navegar el extenso Océano Pacífico incluyendo las importantes islas “sagradas” como La Plata y Salango, esta última fue la sede de un importante cacicazgo, cuya población tenía como actividad el intercambio y el comercio de productos de la costa pacífica, como textiles, orfebrería y principalmente de la concha Spondylus para fines rituales.
La explotación y comercio de la concha tiene historiales muy antiguos, puesto que en Salango esta actividad aparece desde la época de Valdivia, pasando por Machalilla, Chorrera, Guangala, Bahía, hasta la época Manteña. Los Manteños tuvieron una subsistencia basada en la agricultura, adaptada a las condiciones climáticas de la zona, que se caracteriza más bien seca, salvo en las partes altas donde el nivel de humedad es mayor.
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Festival de la Balsa Manteña in Salango, a small fishing village in the central coastal Ecuadorian province of Manabi. Balsa means raft in Spanish and is also the name of a strong, but light, wood of which many of the rafts are made. Balsa wood is also used as an insulator and for building models, Ping-Pong paddles and surfboards.
Manteño is the name of one of the two cultures that inhabited the central Ecuadorian coastal region from 1000 A.D. until 1534, when the Spanish took over. The other culture is the Huancavila. The names are commonly hyphenated, Manteño-Huancavilca, since the two cultures were contemporaries. The Manteño occupied the coastal region of Manabi, north of the Santa Elena Peninsula up to the coast west of Santo Domingo de los Colorados. The Huancavilcas inhabited the Santa Elena Peninsula. The Peninsula was just declared its own province a few days ago. Last week, the Santa Elena Peninsula belonged to the Guayas province to the East.
Five thousand years ago, the Valdivia culture started using small balsa rafts to fish and conduct long distance trade with northern Peru. The Valdivia culture originated on the Santa Elena Peninsula and is one of the oldest American cultures. They occupied the central Ecuadorian coast from 4000 B.C.-1100 B.C. and are one of the first cultures in the Americas to settle permanently and start making ceramics. During the Manteño-Huancavilca period, there were balsas of all sizes. The most common rafts had five large logs strapped together. Others were constructed with seven or nine logs. Some balsas were even large enough to hold up to fifty people. The smaller rafts were usually used for fishing while the larger rafts were used to transport merchandise and people.
CTC Salango. Taller Artesanal Comunitario Salango.
Artesanias hechas en Tagua, conchas, y materiales del bosque y el mar de la comunidad Salango.
Los esperamos. mas informacion.
www.salango.com.ec
La tagua, también se conoce como nuez de marfil o marfil vegetal por su semejanza con este; es la semilla de varias clases de palmas que crecen en los bosques húmedos de Ecuador y que pueden alcanzar una altura de hasta de 8 mts.
Somos el primer Centro Turistico Comunitario del Ecuador. Formamos parte de la Feptce. Ecuador Travel. Agua Blanca Community, El Pital, Las Tunas. Pueblo Manta
CTC Salango. Taller Artesanal Comunitario Salango.
Artesanias hechas en Tagua, conchas, y materiales del bosque y el mar de la comunidad Salango.
Los esperamos. mas informacion.
www.salango.com.ec
La tagua, también se conoce como nuez de marfil o marfil vegetal por su semejanza con este; es la semilla de varias clases de palmas que crecen en los bosques húmedos de Ecuador y que pueden alcanzar una altura de hasta de 8 mts.
Somos el primer Centro Turistico Comunitario del Ecuador. Formamos parte de la Feptce. Ecuador Travel. Agua Blanca Community, El Pital, Las Tunas. Pueblo Manta
CTC Salango. Taller Artesanal Comunitario Salango.
Artesanias hechas en Tagua, conchas, y materiales del bosque y el mar de la comunidad Salango.
Los esperamos. mas informacion.
www.salango.com.ec
La tagua, también se conoce como nuez de marfil o marfil vegetal por su semejanza con este; es la semilla de varias clases de palmas que crecen en los bosques húmedos de Ecuador y que pueden alcanzar una altura de hasta de 8 mts.
Somos el primer Centro Turistico Comunitario del Ecuador. Formamos parte de la Feptce. Ecuador Travel. Agua Blanca Community, El Pital, Las Tunas. Pueblo Manta
FESTIVAL DE LA BALSA MANTEÑA
www.salango.com.ec
La tradición cultural en la historia de los pueblos ha marcado su identidad, haciéndola prevalecer a lo largo del tiempo sin dejar que ella muera. Así pasa en las comunas de Salango y Agua Blanca del cantón Puerto López, éstas en su originalidad indígena descienden del Pueblo de Manta Huancavilca, con unos 5.000 años de historia y cultura, cuyos primeros asentamientos poblacionales pertenecieron a la cultura Valdivia, seguida por la Machalilla, Chorrera-Engoroy, Bahía, Guangala y culmino con el Periodo de Integración Regional denominado Manteña.
Los Manteños tenían como principal actividad económica, el comercio, dominando el mar con sus enormes embarcaciones construidas del palo de balsa que les permitía navegar el extenso Océano Pacífico incluyendo las importantes islas “sagradas” como La Plata y Salango, esta última fue la sede de un importante cacicazgo, cuya población tenía como actividad el intercambio y el comercio de productos de la costa pacífica, como textiles, orfebrería y principalmente de la concha Spondylus para fines rituales.
La explotación y comercio de la concha tiene historiales muy antiguos, puesto que en Salango esta actividad aparece desde la época de Valdivia, pasando por Machalilla, Chorrera, Guangala, Bahía, hasta la época Manteña. Los Manteños tuvieron una subsistencia basada en la agricultura, adaptada a las condiciones climáticas de la zona, que se caracteriza más bien seca, salvo en las partes altas donde el nivel de humedad es mayor.
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Festival de la Balsa Manteña in Salango, a small fishing village in the central coastal Ecuadorian province of Manabi. Balsa means raft in Spanish and is also the name of a strong, but light, wood of which many of the rafts are made. Balsa wood is also used as an insulator and for building models, Ping-Pong paddles and surfboards.
Manteño is the name of one of the two cultures that inhabited the central Ecuadorian coastal region from 1000 A.D. until 1534, when the Spanish took over. The other culture is the Huancavila. The names are commonly hyphenated, Manteño-Huancavilca, since the two cultures were contemporaries. The Manteño occupied the coastal region of Manabi, north of the Santa Elena Peninsula up to the coast west of Santo Domingo de los Colorados. The Huancavilcas inhabited the Santa Elena Peninsula. The Peninsula was just declared its own province a few days ago. Last week, the Santa Elena Peninsula belonged to the Guayas province to the East.
Five thousand years ago, the Valdivia culture started using small balsa rafts to fish and conduct long distance trade with northern Peru. The Valdivia culture originated on the Santa Elena Peninsula and is one of the oldest American cultures. They occupied the central Ecuadorian coast from 4000 B.C.-1100 B.C. and are one of the first cultures in the Americas to settle permanently and start making ceramics. During the Manteño-Huancavilca period, there were balsas of all sizes. The most common rafts had five large logs strapped together. Others were constructed with seven or nine logs. Some balsas were even large enough to hold up to fifty people. The smaller rafts were usually used for fishing while the larger rafts were used to transport merchandise and people.
FESTIVAL DE LA BALSA MANTEÑA
www.salango.com.ec
La tradición cultural en la historia de los pueblos ha marcado su identidad, haciéndola prevalecer a lo largo del tiempo sin dejar que ella muera. Así pasa en las comunas de Salango y Agua Blanca del cantón Puerto López, éstas en su originalidad indígena descienden del Pueblo de Manta Huancavilca, con unos 5.000 años de historia y cultura, cuyos primeros asentamientos poblacionales pertenecieron a la cultura Valdivia, seguida por la Machalilla, Chorrera-Engoroy, Bahía, Guangala y culmino con el Periodo de Integración Regional denominado Manteña.
Los Manteños tenían como principal actividad económica, el comercio, dominando el mar con sus enormes embarcaciones construidas del palo de balsa que les permitía navegar el extenso Océano Pacífico incluyendo las importantes islas “sagradas” como La Plata y Salango, esta última fue la sede de un importante cacicazgo, cuya población tenía como actividad el intercambio y el comercio de productos de la costa pacífica, como textiles, orfebrería y principalmente de la concha Spondylus para fines rituales.
La explotación y comercio de la concha tiene historiales muy antiguos, puesto que en Salango esta actividad aparece desde la época de Valdivia, pasando por Machalilla, Chorrera, Guangala, Bahía, hasta la época Manteña. Los Manteños tuvieron una subsistencia basada en la agricultura, adaptada a las condiciones climáticas de la zona, que se caracteriza más bien seca, salvo en las partes altas donde el nivel de humedad es mayor.
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Festival de la Balsa Manteña in Salango, a small fishing village in the central coastal Ecuadorian province of Manabi. Balsa means raft in Spanish and is also the name of a strong, but light, wood of which many of the rafts are made. Balsa wood is also used as an insulator and for building models, Ping-Pong paddles and surfboards.
Manteño is the name of one of the two cultures that inhabited the central Ecuadorian coastal region from 1000 A.D. until 1534, when the Spanish took over. The other culture is the Huancavila. The names are commonly hyphenated, Manteño-Huancavilca, since the two cultures were contemporaries. The Manteño occupied the coastal region of Manabi, north of the Santa Elena Peninsula up to the coast west of Santo Domingo de los Colorados. The Huancavilcas inhabited the Santa Elena Peninsula. The Peninsula was just declared its own province a few days ago. Last week, the Santa Elena Peninsula belonged to the Guayas province to the East.
Five thousand years ago, the Valdivia culture started using small balsa rafts to fish and conduct long distance trade with northern Peru. The Valdivia culture originated on the Santa Elena Peninsula and is one of the oldest American cultures. They occupied the central Ecuadorian coast from 4000 B.C.-1100 B.C. and are one of the first cultures in the Americas to settle permanently and start making ceramics. During the Manteño-Huancavilca period, there were balsas of all sizes. The most common rafts had five large logs strapped together. Others were constructed with seven or nine logs. Some balsas were even large enough to hold up to fifty people. The smaller rafts were usually used for fishing while the larger rafts were used to transport merchandise and people.