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Day of Interculturality and Plurinationality in Ecuador

Day of Interculturality and Plurinationality in Ecuador is held on October 12. Dia de la raza or Columbus Day. This event in the second decade of the month October is annual. Help us Help us 
12 October - Day of Interculturality and Plurinationality in Ecuador
Happy Columbus Day in Ecuador is celebrated here on the Day of Interculturality. In Ecuador there is a great variety of ethnic groups or human groups established in the three regions of Ecuador that preserve their customs, traditions, clothing and activities
Until 2011, October 12 was called Columbus Day, in reference to Spain's first contact with the American territory that occurred 524 years ago.
But the name was modified to give a new meaning to October 12 and thus promote dialogue between cultures and strengthen national unity, as established by Executive Decree 910, signed by former President Correa, and in which that name is called date as the Day of Interculturality and Plurinationality (Día de la Interculturalidad y Plurinacionalidad).
To commemorate the date that Christopher Columbus' expedition reached the island that the natives called Gunahaní, located in the Lucayan archipelago or American Bahamas, in 1492. Columbus was convinced that he had reached the East Indies and for that reason he called ' Indians' to its inhabitants.
After 72 days of navigation, on October 12, 1492, sailor Rodrigo de Triana sighted Tierra. This event changed the conception of the planet and caused something that not even Columbus had imagined: the union of two worlds.

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National Emblem Day of EcuadorNational Emblem Day of Ecuador on October 31 (Día del Escudo Nacional del Ecuador);
National Education Day in EcuadorNational Education Day in Ecuador on November 13 (established by National Decree No. 3290 of November 7, 2002);
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