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Festival de Orquideas Gualaceo in Gualaceo
An orchid showcase tied to Gualaceo's June cantón anniversary, centered on Ecuagenera, a working orchid nursery and research operation founded in 1992 that holds more than eight thousand varieties across thirty-three greenhouses. Visitors combine flowering displays with active in vitro propagation labs, alongside the town's wider civic festivities held the same month in this Azuay river valley.
Gualaceo's orchid festival is anchored to Ecuagenera, an orchid conservation and cultivation operation founded on August 31, 1992, that has grown into a ten-hectare property holding thirty-three greenhouses and laboratories dedicated to in vitro propagation.