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Restaurants and cafes welcome pets

  In Pichincha there eight places that welcome four-legged companions. Jürgen Cafe, Al modo mio, Pizza SA, Shopping Center La Esquina, Tambo Quinde Eco Lodge, Pollos Stav, Cumbayá, Hostería San Jose, Wuffins – Dog Bakery and La Fabrica. These restaurants, inns,...
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Comic Con Ecuador expects to attract 25,000 visitors

  In the City Hall meanwhile, Gloria Gallardo, president of the Municipal Company of Tourism and Civic Promotion, and Fernando Flores, director of Comic Con Ecuador, discuss the details of the event, which hopes to gather this year about 25,000 visitors. Gallardo anticipated...
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Guayas creates a tourist guide to attract surfers

  The prefecture of the Guayas province presented a digital surf guide, with the idea of developing the potential of the province as a specialized destination. In the 89 pages of the guide, which can be downloaded at www.guayas.gob.ec/turismo 16 ideal points for surfing are...
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684 kilos of cocaine bound for the United States are seized

  Counternarcotics agents seized 684 kilos of cocaine that were destined to the United States and arrested five alleged drug traffickers, reported Monday deputy interior minister Diego Fuentes. At a press conference, he stressed: “we have achieved the dismantling of a...
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Accommodation diversity of Ecuador highlights at the World Travel Awards

  Nature preservation, the classic colonial style without leaving behind technological advances were the features of businesses applied to tourism by Casa Gangotena, Masphi Lodge and Finch Bay Eco Hotel, for these reasons these hotels were awarded at the World Travel Awards...
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The Council of Higher Education declares ‘leaderless’ the Andean University

  Rene Ramirez, the public official who chairs the Higher Education Council (CES for its Spanish acronym), announced that the agency will declare, from tomorrow, the Simon Bolivar Andean University ´leaderless.´ According to the bureaucrat, the deadline stipulated for the...
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Timber exports grow boosted by teak

  Despite the low prices of raw materials and the domestic economic contraction, timber exports grew by 12.9% in metric tons (mt) and 0.7% in value between the first half of this year and the same period of 2015, according to Central Bank of Ecuador (BCEfor its Spanish...
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Incentive on health insurance, with little support

  The draft Organic Law on Tax Incentives for Several Productive Sectors, which was sent to the legislature on August 9, proposed deductions of up to 100% of income tax for prepaid medicine expenses to record small, medium and large enterprises. However, associations such as...
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China donated 10,000 ‘modern’ versions of AK47 rifles to Ecuador

  Ten thousand rifles with their ammunition and three patrol boats with heavy machine guns are the equipment that makes up the war donation that yesterday afternoon the Chinese ambassador to the country, Wang Yulin, handed to Ecuadorian defense minister Ricardo Patino, at...
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Angela Tenorio qualified for semifinals in 200 meters flat in Rio 2016

  Monday Ecuadorian athlete Angela Tenorio obtained the pass to the 200 meters semifinals in the Rio 2016 Games and finished in fourth place in the second of the nine series. Thus, the young Ecuadorian athlete of 20 years, is able to reach her second semifinal in Rio 2016,...
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