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Tungurahua Province UNIVERSIDAD DE ESPECIALIDADES TURISTICAS THE MOST RELAXATION & HEALTH IN TUNGURAHUA PROVINCE Health Tour 2 day – 1 night 3 Switzerland (60 years) Pichincha – Tungurahua Provinces Written By: Adriana Paredes Teacher: Edison Molina To obtain: Bachelor of National Tour Guide Quito, June, 2013 1 Dedications Firstly, I want to thank God for giving me the strength to finish my career with success. I want to dedicate this work to all my family, especially for my mother who is an important person in my life and always stay with me. My husband who helps and gave me unconditional support and important advantages and I love a lot for all. Finally my dear daughter who suffered sometimes the necessity of her mom because I should go to study but She is my fortress in each one of my decisions. 2 Gratitude When I started this project I didn’t have much knowledge about the Tungurahua Province. But thanks to my teacher who taught me and guided me I was able to do this tour. I also want to thank my husband and my daughter for always being at my side and giving me strength to improve and become a professional. 3 INTRODUCTION My thesis topic was Health Tourist of Tungurahua .I had two months to prepared the tour that lasted two days and one night. My tour started on June first y finished on June second. The tour was prepared with some characteristics for the Switzerland people and based on what they would want to visit. When I knew my topic I started to look at some options and investigated; I was then able to give Edison some tour alternatives. When we chose one route I started to develop it. Organizing the tour like the transportation, lodging and food service was not easy but I was able to find the best quality for my passengers. When I had the route of the tour I started to visit all de communities, parishes, natural and cultural places around the area. During my training in the career of National Tourist Guide for the past 3 years I had the opportunity to see many sights and I realize how valuable it is for the country the good use of the tourist attraction in the economy of each town. My idea was do an excellent tour because it is the first step for my career and can be a good professional also The Tourism encouraged me to give a new direction in my life, where I can 4 give a grain of sand in the tourist image of the town and the people of Ecuador. For that I had to do investigation about the different places to offer the health tourism also that I can do in the Tungurahua province specifically and I had to search in a variety of book and internet page about stadistics about my topic and firstly I needed to know what is health tourism? For having a base and beginning to do my options of tour and can show to my tutor. It was interesting and I can travel to Tungurahua province for seeing different option and also it is accessible for the age of my tourist and it can cover all the necessities about the topic and development of tour. ECUADOR Ecuador is located to the Northwest of South America, it limits with Colombia to the North, Peru to West and South, and the Pacific Ocean to the West. It is divided into five regions: Coast, Highland, Amazon Region and Galapagos and a little portion of the Antarctic which is used by scientists for some investigations. Its área is 256,370 km2, and a population of 14,306,876 inhabitants, 60% mixed, 30% indigenous, black and White. The president is elected democratically, nowadays; our president is Rafael Correa Delgado, the predominant religion Christian, Mormon, Pente Costes or another one. 5 From the 2000 year on, the currency in Ecuador is the American dollar, ordered by President Jamil Mahuad, the dollar was valued 25,000 sucres. Ecuadorian economy is based on the petroleum, banana, sea products, flowers, tourism, and so forth. TUNGURAHUA PROVINCE The province of Tungurahua is located in the center of the Ecuadorian highland. The land has an irregular topography. The landscape consists on volcanoes, mountains, plains and valleys, where the principle economical activity is agricultural production and cattle farming. The province belongs to the eastern Basin of the Patate River, also known as Latacunga-Ambato basin. TUNGURAHUA VOLCANO Tungurahua volcano is one of the most active in our country; it is in constant eruption and has provoked people´s evacuation for many times, the volcanic activity of this volcano comes from the Pleistocene Period, or Late Pleistocene Period. 6 The second phase is maybe 14,000 years ago, and this volcano got s new cone immediately, 2,295 years ago when there was a side collapse provoking an avalanche calculated in 8 km3. In a third phase that is until these days, the cone of Tungurahua has grown again until the height of 5,020 masl, from this volcano, it is known there have been many eruptions, in our history, the last tones were in 1916 and 1918. In the Prehistory, it is known that there were enormous sliding that ran until 15 km from its origin. In the last sliding that happened 2,995 years ago, it damped Chambo river and appeared an enormous lagoon that disappeared in a short time. Definitely, this volcano has suffered several collapses and there is the possibility that another one comes, the origin of these collapses is because there are active failures that cross the volcano and due to steeps of 35° it is possible that easily provoke instability. The lava that the volcano has thrown have varies in its composition, between dacites and andesitic, and there could be lava flows a little thick to very thick, the piroclastics flows have been very frequent, and trefa expulsion, too. At present, the volcano is constantly watched in its deformation parameters, geochemistry, and seismic city, the visual checking to the volcano are very constant and thanks to deep investigation it has been possible to determine in maps about the risk, and reaction manuals to prevent an eruption. 7 PATATE PARISH For its landscapes, the weather, Patate is a beautiful valley with fruits scent, it is at 30 minutes from Ambato, surrounded by mountains and Papate river which gives its name. The Word Patate means: Which explodes with Scandal, alluding Tungurahua volcano, that is located near the town, it was founded by Antonio Clavijo on July 24th. 1570; on July 3rd. 1860, it was ascended to Civil Parish and on September 13th. 1973, it becomes county. The weather in Patate is warm, and it is possible to see the traditional fruit orchards, as its great vineyards, tangerine plantations, avocados, passions fruits, babacos, and so forth. It is wonderful to walk by its enchanting park decorated with colorful flowers and cautivating trees own of the place, and its beautiful house of colonial style, still built with adobe. Patate city is the ideal place to relax, where you can organize excursions to the shores of Patate river where there are some old haciendas and agricultural farms, where there are wine distillers, and it is possible to try five different kinds of White and tint wine. From Patate, it is possible to travel to Sucre parish where there is a small Panzaleo and Puruha ceramics museum as the mystic cemetery of a surprising culture; in Los Andes parish, it is possible to see the great peach plantations; in addition to these places, the tourists can go to Llanganates National Park. 8 Or walk ans enjoy nature which has many options, like: Mundug waterfall, with a spectacular fall and collect stones with sparkles of false gold that are a wonderful regard that gives us this magnificent land. But, undoubtedly the devotion to the Lord of the Earthquakes, that is very ancient and it is the most important festivity to appreciate the culture of the sector, homaging to the land too, to its land with flowers and fruits of agreeable and delicious scents, which with the beauty of the sacred temple, dedicated to its patrón, make of this place one of the most appreciated symbols of development and covered by mountains. AMBATO CITY Known as “Land of Flowers and Fruits” and “Of the Three Juanes, Juan Montalvo, Juan Leon Mera and Juan Benigno Vela, it has been one of the most importan tandean commerce centers. Ambato city has been rebuilt many times because of the earthquakes that happened in 1698 and 1797. The violent eruption of Tungurahua volcano, in 1698, caused very serious damages to the city, obliging the re foundation on August 3rd, 1968. On November 12th, 1820 and after an attack to Fominaya headquarter; Ambato got its independence from Spanish crown. In 1835, it was the seat of Second Ecuadorian Congress, where the Vicente Rocafuerte appeared as a new political personage. Ambato is recognized worldwide for its Flowers and Fruits festivity, which its first time was on February 17th, 1951, by and Order Act dictated by the City Hall, remembering the ilustrous Ambatean: Juan Montalvo, Juan Leon Mera, Pedro Fermin Cevallos and Juan Benigno Vela. In 1969, this festivity began to take place with the Carnival. The celebration was the central act of the parade with flowers 9 and fruits, where there was the participation of bands, high schools and dancers. Slowly, the party became a regional attraction in Ecuador. The most important element of this festivity was to play Carnival without water, and full of culture and respect.
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