Tourism Canar :: Canar Municipality Official Site

Canar is a permanent reminder of cultural diversity is evident in the cultures that have left their mark on the course of time. The historical processes of conquest, resistance and fusion of their collective, manifest in forms of material and ideological life that show his ability to create and cultural recreation.

Among the major ethnic groups in the county are: Huayrapungus, Quilloacs, and communities that are Sisids history and important features such as primitive indigenous community.

Music

This is to stress, their ancestral music wind blow and percussion, whose tracks have unfortunately disappeared and been replaced by Western musical instruments.

Musical Set: This set consisted of four musicians, including a guitarist, a violinist, a charango and drumming, dressed as the cultural customs of the Canaris.

Among the musical instruments stands out:

Box or drum

It is a percussion instrument, small in size prepared from small or balsa wood, it is covered with sheepskin (battery side) or other small animals. By tapping on the routes or pathways identified easily produce sounds remotely glamorous.

Pingullo and Huajairo (flute)

The pingullo is a wind instrument made out of deer bones or wings of a condor, if possible. The Huajairo is a kind of flute that emits a louder sound, gloomy and very sad ..

Clothing

The clothing of the Indian Canari

The Old Clothes: Before the conquest of the Inca empire and the Spanish, the Canari were characterized by unique and original clothing, this dress did not share the old ties with any other culture.

In his old clothes on his head wore a pumpkin ring tied to his forehead, which gathered all the hair and wound on the top of the skull. Produced textiles were made from llama wool and vegetable fibers such as sisal.

The historian Gaspar Gallegos said: “shirts and mantles were long reached their knees” but also stated that before the Incas arrived, the natives only wearing T-shirts, or what we now know the name of their cuzhmas covered the body up to the knees, leaving the arms and lower legs uncovered.

Current Apparel .- In our day the attire is more elaborate, more elaborate in terms of its colors, textiles and shapes. The fabrics are made of wool, is of good quality fabric and subtle, with her ponchos are made, cuzhmas, bands who design fabrics with various colorful ways.

At present our indigenous use a wool hat made of white sheep on a hemispherical skirt a small visor is decorated with an elegant braid.

The women wear skirts (skirts) of various colors, mainly black, embroidered white blouse carries, and rope preferably black, with a Tupo (pin) that supports the piece, adorned with pearl necklaces red, blue , silver earrings with motifs of the world view to the Canaries and how to braid hair.

In summary between the old and current clothing in their forms differ greatly, there has been great progress in quality textiles, colors, embroidered on their shirts, belts and ponchos, their sandals or commonly called oshotas (shoes) are made up of current replacement rubber, suitable for the hard work of the field.

Language 

The indigenous group is the official language Quechua, leaving considerable residue of terminology “Canary Islands”, which survive by the time after the Incas and the Spanish conquest.

In the Mestizo group official language is Spanish also being practiced by indigenous peasants.

Crafts

The expression of art takes place in an excellent craftsmanship of the skilled hands of its people, it is highly appreciated internationally.

Notable wool dress fabrics, mainly developed in handloom back or waist rudimentary, such as ponchos and belts, classic elements of the common canary people in their communities, as well as the manufacture of wool hats.

The city developed the leather, especially the development of elements of leather and soles as saddles and belts.

Traditions

Raymi Pawkar

FIESTA CARNIVAL OF TAIT

Celebration held in February by indigenous communities who express a deep substrate contains mythical recalls the struggle of their ancestors, are based on social concepts of exchange and reciprocity, reproducing community strengthening, as manifested in the annual visit from house to house performing the Taita Carnaval, kind and generous, which is accompanied by its opposite the Yarcay spirit that embodies the hunger, poverty and bad luck.

For this event, arrange the best costumes for the party and rehearses the music with traditional instruments like the trumpet, the pingullo and box.

Inti Raymi

Fiesta del Sol and Harvest

One of the traditions that have as their legacy the nation’s glorious past Cañari-Inca, is the festival of the sun and the harvest in June solstice.

Collect this ancient experience, allows our ethnic roots retain all its splendor and color through song and the joy of the winds that originate in the green fields and golden wheat fields of this soil.

The Inty Raymi is in itself a symbol of gratitude of the Andean people offering to Paccha Mama (Mother Earth), by the goodness of having allowed a good production and harvesting of traditional products, gratitude is celebrated with the presence of music and dance, focusing more than a hundred indigenous groups.

This cultural event has crossed the borders, since the latter are representatives of the music and dance from the Andean countries with similar ethnic, to participate in this FIESTA DEL SOL.

This event takes place every year, the 17al June 21 and is celebrated in the town of Canar, near Park and Ingapirca Guantug.

The passing of the Child.

Celebration of a religious nature which is held every year on 24 and December 25, with the traditional passing of the baby Jesus in the center of the city, where they participate in the celebration of children in schools, as well as the communities, dressed in their best clothes and different costumes to celebrate the occasion of Christmas or the birth of Baby Jesus.

Years old and the groups of innocent

As part of the traditions of the village of Canar in the center of the city is holding years old on December 31, where neighborhoods and clubs made the traditional puppets (years old) where the feature or flush most important events in the course of the passing year, on issues related to political, social, cultural, national, international and local specialties as constructive criticism felt by its residents.

The same connotation presents the party of the troupe of the innocent is performed January 6 with the parade and presentation of the groups of the innocent.