Ecuadorian NYC

Ecuadorian NYC is one of The City’s five largest Latin communities.

The community is centered in Corona and Jackson Heights, Queens, but is also in Bushwick, Brooklyn; Fordham, The Bronx; and East Newark, New Jersey.

We are a mix of Indigenous Kichwa (Quechua) and Shuar, Spanish, and African.

Ecuadorian American Cultural Center is in Astoria, Queens. ecuadorcenter.org or Instagram @ecuadorcenter

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Ecuadorian NYC News

Summer for the City 2024 Invites the Whole World to Lincoln Center

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Continue Reading Summer for the City 2024 Invites the Whole World to Lincoln Center

New Colossus Festival is an Independent Rock Showcase in the Lower East Side

ARLENE’S GROCERY, BAKER FALLS, BERLIN, BOWERY ELECTRIC, HEAVEN CAN WAIT, MERCURY LOUNGE, PIANOS, ROCKWOOD, Lower East Side, Manhattan ~ Brazilian, French Canadian, Ecuadorian, French, Italian, Peruvian, Portuguese, and Spanish rock. 🇧🇷 🇨🇦 🇪🇨 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇪🇸

FIFA Rank of Latin Men’s and Women’s National Teams

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La Novena de Aguinaldos is a Colombian, Ecuadorian, and Venezuelan Christmas Tradition

DECEMBER 16-24 🇨🇴 🇪🇨 🇻🇪

Orchestra of St Luke’s is a Chamber Ensemble and Chamber Orchestra That Plays New Music, Including for Dance

J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio 🇨🇦
St Luke’s Chamber Ensemble Vivaldi 🇮🇹
African American women composers 🇺🇸
“Carmina Burana” choral 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇪🇨
Valerie Coleman’s “Portraits of Josephine” 🇺🇸 🇫🇷

DIMENNA CENTER, Hudson Yards
CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown
HOSTOS CENTER, Mott Haven, The Bronx
SNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER, Staten Island
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY, Prospect Park
FLUSHING TOWN HALL, Flushing, Queens
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, Lincoln Center

2023 NYCWFF New York City Wine and Food Festival Features a Latin Night

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Thursday-Sunday, October 12-15, 2023

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Hispanic Day Parade is New York’s Big Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration

New York City’s big Hispanic Heritage Month celebration.

FIFTH AVENUE Midtown/Midtown East, Central Park/Upper East Side

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November 2022

German-Ecuadorian Steinway pianist Boris Cepeda RAICES: Piano Works from Europe & South America plays 19th century European music and contemporary classical music from Ecuador and Argentina (Albéniz, Guevara, Canelos, Liszt, Ravel, Ortiz, Cárdenas, and Piazzolla) in the Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Hall on Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at 8pm. From $60. 🇦🇷 🇪🇨 🇫🇷 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇪🇸

September 2022

OPENING RECEPTION
Ronny Quevedo: entre aquí y allá, an exhibition exploring Indigenous Ecuadorian heritage, migration and community, opens with a reception at Alexander Gray Associates in Chelsea, Manhattan on Thursday, September 8, 2022 from 6-8pm. The show runs to October 15. alexandergray.com 🇪🇨

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, a celebration of the Americas, through October 15. 🇦🇷🇧🇴🇧🇷🇨🇱🇨🇴🇨🇷🇨🇺🇩🇴🇪🇨🇸🇻🇬🇶🇬🇹🇭🇳🇲🇽🇳🇮🇵🇦🇵🇾🇵🇪🇵🇷🇪🇸🇺🇾🇻🇪

The Queens Hispanic Parade 2022 marches on 37th Avenue from 69th St to 86th St in Jackson Heights, Queens on Sunday, September 25, 2022 starting at 11am. 🇦🇷🇧🇴🇨🇱🇨🇴🇨🇷🇨🇺🇩🇴🇪🇨🇸🇻🇬🇶🇬🇹🇭🇳🇲🇽🇳🇮🇵🇦🇵🇾🇵🇪🇵🇷🇪🇸🇺🇾🇻🇪

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Ecuadorian Culture

Indigenous culture remains strong in Ecuador. In addition to Spanish, Kichwa (the old Inca Quechua language), Shuar (an Amazonian language) and other Indigenous languages are recognized official languages. The coast also has Afro-Ecuadorian culture.

The modern country is the northern part of the Inca Empire so the mountains share Andean culture with southern Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and parts of Chile and Argentina. These regions are connected by the old Inca road system.

Ecuador’s northernmost province is Esmeraldas. That’s Spanish for emeralds. The legendary Atahualpa Emerald which belonged to the last Inca emperor, is in the Crown of the Andes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Panama hats actually come from Ecuador.

Several Ecuadorian culture forms are recognized by UNESCO as the Intangible Cultural Heritage of humanity.

• Zápara language and culture are an Indigenous language that speaks with the sounds of the forest, and a culture with deep knowledge of plants and the ways of the land.
• Traditional Ecuadorian toquilla straw hat production is a coastal culture of palm farming and weaving what is better known as the Panama Hat.
• The Marimba music, chanting and dancing of the Esmeraldas Province is an Ecuadorian recreation of a Central African faith and family tradition.

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Visit Ecuador

Ecuador has something for everyone. There are the Galapagos Islands, the Pacific coast, Andes mountains, and Amazon jungle. There are even active volcanoes.

It’s a beautiful land. The country is the home of several UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Ecuadorian colonial architecture is a blend of Indigenous and Spanish Baroque styles, built by Indigenous artists. The style is called “Escuela Quiteña” or Baroque School of Quito. It’s known for harmonizing with nature. Traditional Spanish architecture is tuned to the land, but Escuela Quitena takes it to another level. It really is Indigenous Baroque.

• Galápagos Islands are famously biodiverse Pacific islands.
• Qhapaq Ñan is the old Andean Road System that runs along the Andes from Colombia to Chile.
• Quito, the capital, was founded in 1534 in an abandoned Inca city.
• Sangay National Park is an undisturbed natural area in the middle of the Ecuadorian Andes.
• Cuenca is a colonial town founded in 1577 built around an Indigenous community that was modernized in the 1800s.

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Quito

The Ecuadorian capital was founded on the ruins of an Inca city high in the Andes. It’s among the best preserved colonial cities in Latin America. Soccer teams from other countries struggle to play there because of the high altitude.

The San Francisco Church (La Iglesia de San Francisco) is a stunning example of Escuela Quiteña architecture.

There is much more to see in Ecuador.