I happened to be in town for the pomp and circumstance - not for national independence day (that's August 10) but rather the date when in 1820 the city and province of Guayaquil declared its independence from Spain, which is celebrated throughout the country because it was a key moment, two years before the country as a whole got its independence.

 

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