Manabí offers artistic events, nature trails and beaches to try to attract tourists on this long holiday.

Manta becomes the city that will propose the most outdoor events for tourists for this long holiday. Even, unlike other cities in the country, the holidays extend until Thursday, November 4, the day on which this Manabi port will commemorate its 99 years of cantonization.

The thirteen beaches of this canton will have their accesses open and without limitations, where there will be accompaniment of lifeguards and firefighters deployed in the spas.

Isidro Rodríguez, director of the Department of Tourism, announced that until Friday (October 22) there was already a reservation in hotels that spent 30% of the more than five thousand rooms in various rest areas, hostels and hotels of various categories that exist in this canton.

For this holiday, they estimate that more than 100,000 people will mobilize in this Manabi port, a number of tourists exceeding the 60,000 who arrived last October 9, who left about $ 2.5 million to the tourism sector.

On the subject of capacity, in places such as restaurants, the figure reaches 30% in relation to the total available seats, but before the holiday a session of the cantonal COE will be held in which it is expected to define if this capacity would reach 50% .

One of the potentials that Manta offers is the rural area, hence, for example, for hikers and lovers of flora and fauna there is the possibility of a route through the Pasaje del Mono path, this within the Marine Wildlife Refuge Reserve -Costera Pacoche, on the Spondylus Route.

Iliana Solórzano, administrator of the refuge, indicated that to access this area you must enter between 08:00 and 16:00, and for this you must have comfortable and warm clothes, because at present there are times when the breeze has blown. evidenced.

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Upon arrival there is a local guide who will offer his service in a tour that lasts between an hour and a half and two hours and for which $ 20 is paid for groups of up to ten people, in an area where you can see from howler monkeys, hummingbirds and diversity of flora.

In Puerto López there is a 10% discount on family-type room accommodation in hotels and rest rooms affiliated with the Association of Hoteliers of this canton, according to Santiago Guamaní, head of this tourist association.

Until last Friday, reservations had been made for 30% of the total of more than 2,200 rooms that Puerto López offers, but Guamaní pointed out that before the announcement of mobilizations that interest of some tourists had stopped.

“We trust that, if mobilizations do not take place, we are optimistic that we will have up to a reservation of 90% of the total rooms in Puerto López.

The cantonal COE decided to allow bars and restaurants to serve users until 02:00, said Guamaní, who added that users can make reservations and learn more about the tourist potential of this canton through the website www.visitapuertolopez .com.

Portoviejo does not have activities scheduled during the holiday, but it exhibits its gastronomic benefits and tourist attractions in the rural area, and archaeological observations in the hills of Leaves and Jaboncillo, in Picoazá, where there are some 900 visible structures and there is an archaeological museum.

20 minutes west of Portoviejo is Crucita, with its beach of about 4 kilometers long and where paragliding flights take place, to the southeast of this spa.

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While to the east, 30 minutes away, is the Alhajuela parish, where private investment has located the Bajo Grande Camping viewpoint, about 170 meters above sea level, from where it is possible to observe the extensive region of trees and other plantations . (I)

The schedule of activities

-The Sucre canton has an agenda for this holiday. From this Thursday 28, starting at 9:00 p.m., in the San Isidro parish the election of the queen of this canton in the north of Manabí will be held. On Saturday, October 30, from 10:00, the Manuel open water nautical competition will be held in the estuary of the Chone River a bit Ramirez.

-On November 1 through the main streets of Bahía de Caráquez, cantonal head of Sucre, there will be a parade organized by the Club de Caballistas of this city. On November 3, from 10:00, the solemn session in tribute to the 146 years of cantonization of Sucre will be held on Bolívar Avenue.

-On November 1, at the Oro Verde hotel, from 8:00 p.m. the election of the Queen of Manta will take place. Ten candidates compete.

– On November 2, from 5:00 p.m. in the Plaza del Mar park, located in the Tarqui parish, the second dessert festival Dessert Fest will be held.

-At 18:00 on Thursday, November 4, the solemn session will be held outside the Manta cruise terminal, near El Murcielago beach.