Ecuadoran
Corridas & Festivals

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Erick Medina -- Quito

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Ambato

Fiesta de las frutas y las flores

February 8 - 10
Contracted toreros: Ricardo Ortiz, Rafi de la Viña, José Luis Cobo, Juan de la Cruz, Guillermo Albán, and Jaime Valdivieso (rejoneador)
Contracted ganaderias: El Charrón, Carlos Manuel Cobo, Triana, and Santa Rosa


Ibarra

Feria de Ibarra:

Saturday, September 28
Novillada featuring the novilleros Cruz Ordoñez (Ecuador) and Alfredo Cobillas (Colombia), and the Rejoneadores Jaime and Jorge Valdivieso -- all novillos from the Ganaderia del Charco.

Sunday, September 29
a "Festival Popular" with bulls from Chictazon, for the aspiring novilleros Veronica Cevallos, Xavier Aguilar, and the aspiring Rejoneador Vicente Arteaga.


Guayaquil
(new Plaza -- La Plaza de Toros "Santiago de Guayaquil")
capacity = 7,500 spectators

Nov. 24 (Saturday)
Inaugural Corrida
Dayro Chica (Colombian Rejoneador), José Luis Cobo, and Manuel Díaz ''El Cordobés''

Nov. 25 (Sunday)
2º Corrida in the new Plaza (mixed corrida)
Bulls from Hermanos Cobo
For Sergio Garcia (Colombian Rejoneador) and Jorge Valdivieso (Ecuadoran Rejoneador), Cristina Sánchez, and Guillermo Albán (Ecuadoran Novillero)


Quito


Festival Taurino del Niño
A benefit for the Asociación Benefactora de Enfermos Incurables, Hogar Infantil
3d Festival, 29 June '96
Plaza de Toros "Belmonte," Quito
Novillos from Ortuño
Novilleros: Ale Sanchez Romero (12 years old, from the Escuela Taurina de Malaga); Joaquin Monpo (13 years old, from the Escuela Taurina de Valencia); José Luis Gordillo "el Lojano" (from the Escuela Taurina de Quito "Jesus del Gran Poder")

Friday, September 27
Plaza de Toros -- 7:00PM
The third "novillada de preferia"
Novillos from Triana and San José del Quinto
For the aspiring Rejoneador Jorge Valdivoeso, and the novilleros (students at the Escuela "Jesus del Gran Poder") José Guzman, Esteban Ortiz, the "triunfador" of the last novillada, José Luis Gordillo "El Lojano", Oscar Conrado, and the Colombian novillero, Paquito Perlaza (from the Escuela de Calí).

Friday, October 25
Plaza de Toros -- 7:00PM
Final "novillada de preferia"
Novillos from Solano Peñaherrera (3) and Campuzano Nuñez (3)
For the Ecuatorianos, Cruz Ordoñez and Juan Pablo Diaz, and the Mexican, Alberto Huertas (replacing his countryman, "El Cuate Espinosa," who broke his wrist in Plaza México a week before he was to appear here.

Feria de Quito
(Feria "Jesús del Gran Poder")

Saturday, Nov. 30
Bulls from Santo Domingo (3) and Triana (3)
For José Luis Cobo, Manuel Diaz "El Cordobés," and Cristina Sanchez

Sunday, Dec. 1
Novillos from Del Pinar
For Antonio Ferrera, Francisco Barroso, and Juan Pablo Diaz

Monday, Dec. 2
Bulls from Carlos Manuel Cobo
For José Mari Manzanares, Paco Barona, and Pedrito de Portugal

Tuesday, Dec. 3
Bulls from Campo Bravo
For "El Cordobes", Antonio Campana, and Javier Conde

Wednesday, Dec. 4
Bulls from Huagrahuasi
For José Mari Manzanares, José Miguel Arroyo "Joselito," and José Luis Cobo

Thursday, Dec. 5 -- Corrida Mixta
Bulls from Corinto y Oro
For Paco Barona, Rafael Ortega, and Leonardo Hernandez (Rejoneador)

Friday, Dec. 6
Bulls from Huagrahuasi and Carlos Manuel Cobo
For José Miguel Arroyo "Joselito", Pedrito de Portugal, and Carlos Yáñez

Saturday, Dec. 7
Novillos from Santa Rosa
For Leonardo Hernandez (Rejoneador), and Novilleros, Antonio Ferrera, and Cruz Ordoñez

Sunday, Dec. 8
Bulls from Charron
For Rodrigo Marin, Cristina Sanchez, and Canales Rivera


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