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Ecuador: The Andean reinvention of cumbia

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Celebration of San Juanes in Cotacachi, province of Imbabura, Ecuador.  The Cumbia Andina is a mixture of indigenous rythms from the north of the country, such as San Juanitos played and danced to during the celebrations, and Colombian cumbia.

Photographers and storytellers Karla Gachet and Ivan Kashinsky document cumbia music in Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina and the United States.

(Image credit: Karla Gachet)

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