Costumes from Inti Raymi, which we attended in 2011. It is a blend of the Incan solstice festival and the Catholic Feast of St. John the Baptist, since they occur at the same time. Groups of costumed young men from neighboring villages storm the Cotacachi town square (La Plaza de la Matriz) and dance/march to hypnotic music. The symbolic taking of the square represents an upheaval of the social order, so that traditionally and historically marginalized Kichwa natives temporarily dominate the mestizo / white majority population.