New Year's Day
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Sunday January 1, 2023
Secular holiday : The world's most widely celebrated holiday, New Years was set on January 1 by Julius Caesar because that was the date the Roman consuls took over their duties. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
New Year's Day (moved forward to Monday)
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Monday January 2, 2023
Secular holiday :
New year holiday (end)
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Monday January 2, 2023
School holidays : Http://educacion.gob.ec
official calendar gazetted by the Ministry of Education
Coastal regions and Galápagos carry a specific calendar
Schooling is mandatory till age 15
number of instructional days per year in lower secondary education: 150 - in higher: 187
schools may remain open on Saturday
school uniforms required
We carry confirmed dates till July 2023 in Sierra (Quito), and till May 2023 in Coastal region and GalápagosPlease note that authorities may take last-minute decisions; please double-check if this information is vital to you
Please note that authorities may take last-minute decisions; please double-check if this information is vital to you
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Reporter's Day
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Thursday January 5, 2023
Special Events : Instaurado en homenaje a la publicación del primer número de Primicias de la cultura de Quito , el 5 de enero de 1792, periódico dedicado a exaltar las ideas libertarias y fundado por Eugenio de Santa Cruz y Espejo, precursor y prócer de la Independencia americana. El Congreso Nacional, el 7 de agosto de 1992 y con ocasión del segundo centenario de la aparición del Primer Periódico Ecuatoriano , dictó el acuerdo que estableció la fecha del Día del Periodista Ecuatoriano
Mid-term holiday (beginning) (Sierra)
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Saturday January 28, 2023
School holidays :
Municipal elections
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Sunday February 5, 2023
Special Events :
Mid-term holiday (end) (Sierra & Amazonia)
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Monday February 6, 2023
School holidays :
Valentine's Day
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Tuesday February 14, 2023
cards/flowers : Introduced by Pope Gelasus in 498, perhaps in response to a local Roman tradition of lovers writing their names on an urn in February
Mid-term holiday (end)
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Monday February 20, 2023
School holidays :
Carnival
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Monday February 20, 2023
Secular holiday :
Carnival
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Tuesday February 21, 2023
Secular holiday :
End of school year (coastal regions)
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Wednesday March 15, 2023
School holidays :
Good Friday
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Friday April 7, 2023
Catholic or protestant : The First Council of Nicaea (a gathering of bishops in the early days of Christianity) wanted to find a day to commemorate the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ.
This commemoration had to be linked to Jewish holiday traditions, since the last supper of Christ was believed to be a Jewish Passover meal. But the Jewish calendar is based on lunar and solar cycles, so the Easter celebration had to follow the same calendar.
Regional holiday
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Wednesday April 12, 2023
Secular holiday : Foundation of Cuenca in Cuenca only
Beginning of school year (coastal regions)
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Thursday April 13, 2023
School holidays :
Labor Day
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Monday May 1, 2023
Secular holiday :
Mothers' Day
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Sunday May 14, 2023
cards/flowers : Mothers day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mothers day has different origins in different countries and therefore occurs on different days in the year.
One school of thought claims that this day emerged from the custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus, was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world.
Mothering Sunday is the celebration of motherhood in the United Kingdom. It is also known as Mid-lent Sunday, Rose Sunday and Laetare Sunday. It originally comes from the Victorian practice of allowing servants to return home to visit their mothers on this day.
In the United States, Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 - October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. Howes Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War. After the war she focused her activities on the causes of Pacifism and womens suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mothers Day, with her Mothers Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mothers Day in 1914
Battle of Pichincha Celebration
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Friday May 26, 2023
Secular holiday : Celebrates the Spanish defeat in 1822
Fathers' Day
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Sunday June 18, 2023
cards/flowers :
End of school year (Sierra & Amazonia)
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Friday June 30, 2023
School holidays :
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday July 12, 2023
School holidays :
Regional holiday
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Monday July 24, 2023
Secular holiday : Foundation Day - The foundation of Guayaquil was a process of the Spanish conquest in the coastal region of Ecuador. After several transfers and conflicts with native inhabitants of pre-Columbian cultures, the city of Santiago de Guayaquil was finally founded. The conquest took place between 1534 and 1547. in Guayaquil only