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Santo Domingo de Los Colorados Travel Guide

Travel to Santo Domingo de Los Colorados - Lively Tourist Town

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Santo Domingo offers its visitors a wide range of fine restaurants, five stars hotels, excellent stores for the shopping pleasure, bars, discos, and a lively nightlife.

Santo Domingo de Los Colorados is the seat of the canton that bears the same name and the capital of the province of Santo Domingo de Los Tsáchilas. Located in the lush central lowland area of northern Ecuador, the city is a huge transportation hub, linking Quito and the Sierra to the coastal regions of Ecuador. The city is 129 kilometres from Quito, and the area is of great importance to both the banana and palm olive industries.

The area has been a major draw point for Colombian immigrants, migrating south looking for better opportunities. Additionally, the area is famed for its Tsachila indigenous people, well-known for their use of an achiote dye to color their hair red. In fact, the name los Colorados directly translates into Spanish as “the colored,”referring to their hair.

Attractions in Santo Domingo de Los Colorados

They include the El Indio Colorado and La avenida Quito shopping mall. The "Monumento al Colorado" statue west of the center of town personifies well the look and dress code of the Tsáchila people nicknamed "Indios Colorados" but these indigenous Indians never venture to town in their traditional attire unless during special celebrations.