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Latacunga Independence Festival in Latacunga
Latacunga's civic Mama Negra staging, held each November 11 to mark the city's 1820 declaration of independence and organized by the municipality rather than the market vendors behind the city's September religious version. Larger and more theatrical than its September counterpart, it features elaborate floats and a maskless costumed cast in a tourism-oriented civic spectacle.
Latacunga's November festivities mark the city's declaration of independence on November 11, 1820, and take the form of a civic staging of the same Mama Negra tradition celebrated in a more devotional form by the city's markets each September.