HIGHLAND REGION

The Andean region, or highland Ecuador is located in the middle of the two regions, this region is very mountainous with two western and eastern mountain ranges. with a host of plateaux. It has 11 provinces in different provinces have several places where you can get distracted like park, historic centers of each cities, ecological reserves, rivers, waterfalls, museums, lakes, lagoons history religious centers. It also has great mountains and active volcanoes.

In the highlands there several indigenous communities, the language of the region is the Castilian or Spanish and Quichua, colorful crafts and the most colorful festivals .. Each community is dressed according to their beliefs and cultures of each city. Gastronomy is the guinea pig roast, fry meat colored, llapingacho, mote pillo, chucchucaras, hornado, champus, empanadas, chicha of rice, also enjoy the variety of tropical fruits.

In the highlands, tourists can enjoy a variety of extreme sports: such as horseback riding, hiking, camping, biking, paragliding, swimming, bird tour, canoping, hiking, kayaking truequing, boat trip, rapelling. Also observing the ponds, lakes and volcanoes and hills of the Highlands region.

The temperature is very cold.