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The Machalilla culture, whose more intense centers seem to have been to the north of the province of the Guayas and the south of the one of Manabí, means a continuation of the Valdivia. But the ceramics takes a significant step, at least in three aspects. Feminine Figures with corporal painting. In the Machalilla culture there are black pots intensely smoky and polished, decorated by lines recorded in pot after cooked and emitted smoke and outstanding by a white pigment. Also the black of the red smoking with designs of engobe is combined. The designs follow the geometric and linear tradition of Valdivia. He also appears in this culture one pot of very beautiful form: you coput of high pedestal. These pieces, very refined, have walls extremely delgadas.And is a very particular form - that extends until Mexico -: the called bottle of "stirrup tip". Bottles of two tips that are united by means of a bridge. These bottles are ornamented in cases of a way that has been called "plastic" (to oppose it to purely painted or bordered): with modeled figures, human animals or. In contrast to Valdivia, the little figures of human form, are rather rare. And they appear decorated sometimes with very fine red lines. They present/display a very peculiar characteristic characteristic: in molded faces, superposed eyes, with coffee grain form. Machalilla adopts its name of a pair of indigenous spouses, that is created belonged to the faces, he was called MALE and she LILLA were based in this region to dedicate themselves soon to the fishing and to agriculture Considered like one of the oldest towns of the Province of Manabí, it was created by Territorial Division in the year of 1878 by the Jipijapa corner with a distance of 48 km, at the present time it belongs to the corner Port Lopez, and is located to 11 km.

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY

Its demographic population comes near the 7000 inhabitants, of who 90% are dedicated to the fishing, whereas 10% sowing cultures of maize, watermelon, zapallo, melon, fréjol, among others for local consumption.

TOURIST SITES

With tropical climate, pleasant and tempering. It opens his doors to show a magical world of natural and marine resources, among them the Sucre Small barren island, Island of the Silver, today an attraction from where the jorobadas whales descry themselves Account also like tourist panorama the Loradora End and Heavy end; the Friars, hábitad of the piqueros blue legs; San Isidro; the White commune Water, cultural center that keeps archaeological objects from the Machalilla culture

ARCHAEOLOGY

The vestiges found in the archaeological excavations of the Machalilla culture (1500 A.C.a 1300 A.C) were ceramic objects like pots with patitas of polípodos, earthenware pitchers, whistles, candlesticks of mud, vasijas with handle in form of stirrups painted of two colors, painted massive human figures of red or with bands of that color. In addition one was human skeletons that they denoted a humble condition of the Machalilla Culture, referring to Average the Formativo period, that extended from the south of Manabí to the province of Gold and Puná Island.

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Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo UEES in Guayaquil, Ecuador has a collection of Machalilla artifacts.

SOURCES

www.utpl.edu.ec/museo/arqueologia/faceta09.html

www.edufuturo.com/educacion.php?c=1724

www.usfq.edu.ec/1PROFESORES/Hoeneisen/Ecuador_2050/raices.htm

www.puertolopez.net/paginas/machalilla.htm