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Bank and Public Holidays for Ecuador

Ecuador bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2012, from the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database, the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by the world's foremost diary publishers. The information on this page is provided for private, non-professional, use.

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04 May 2012 (Agencia de Noticias del Ecuador y Sudamérica-ANDES) Ecuador's Presidency has released the Decreto 1162 which specfies the dates of Ecuador's non-working public holidays for the remainder of 2012 as well as the calendar years 2013, 2014, and 2015. • 24 Apr 2012 (Agencia de Noticias del Ecuador y Sudamérica-ANDES) Ecuador's Presidency has rejected the idea of declaring Monday, April 30, 2012, as a one-off bridge public holiday in Ecuador. • 03 Apr 2012 (Agencia de Noticias del Ecuador y Sudamérica-ANDES) Ecuador's Presidency has confirmed that Friday, April 6, 2012, Good Friday, would be the only non-working public holiday in Ecuador on account of the upcoming Easter celebrations. • 11 Feb 2012 (Agencia de Noticias del Ecuador y Sudamérica-ANDES) The President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, has issued a decree declaring Monday and Tuesday, February 20 and 21, 2012, as the non-working public holidays for the upcoming Carnival, throughout Ecuador. • 24 Dec 2011 (Periódico Digital del Gobierno de la Revolución Ciudadana-Quito) Ecuador's President, Rafael Correa Delgado, has finally issued a decree declaring Monday, January 2, 2012, as a one-off non-working public holiday in Ecuador. • 16 Dec 2011 (Agencia de Noticias del Ecuador y Sudamérica-ANDES) The President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, has announced that Monday, January 2, 2012, would be a one-off non-working public holiday throughout Ecuador. • 02 Dec 2011 (Agencia de Noticias del Ecuador y Sudamérica-ANDES) The government of Ecuador has announced that Tuesday, December 6, 2011, would be a non-working public holiday in Ecuador's capital city, Quito. • 17 Oct 2011 (El Diario-Manabí) The October 18 regional non-working public holiday in the Ecuadoran province of Manabí is uncertain following contradictory announcements by the national government of Ecuador and the regional government of Manabí. • 22 Sep 2011 (Agencia de Noticias del Ecuador y Sudamérica-ANDES) The government of Ecuador has announced an exceptional 5-day public holiday to be observed from Wednesday, November 2, until Sunday, November 6, 2011, inclusively. • 30 Jul 2011 (Agencia de Noticias del Ecuador y Sudamérica-ANDES) Ecuador's Ministry of Tourism has announced that the upcoming, August 10, Primer Grito de Independencia del Ecuador, public holiday would be moved to Friday, August 12, 2011. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Ecuador public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Governing Law: Official public holidays in Ecuador are regulated by the Código del Trabajo, de 30 de junio de 1978, and the 1994 Ley núm. 55, reformatoria del Código del Trabajo y de la ley del Servicio Civil y Carrera Administrativa which added some national public holidays, as well as punctually issued decrees, the most recent of which was the Decreto Ejecutivo N. 418 de 19 de junio de 2007. The moving of public holidays that fall on certain weekdays is also regulated by the Ley Orgánica de Servicio Civil y Carrera Administrativa y de Unificación y Homologación de las Remuneraciones del Sector Público which, in therory applies only to civil servants, but is generally also followed by the private sector. • Mid-Week Public Holidays: Public holidays that fall in the middle of the week are often moved to a Friday or a Monday to make a long weekend. For 2007 public holidays, this was specified in the executive decree 2369 of January 12, 2007, later amended concerning the recuperation days for Carnaval (many web sites, still show the wrong recuperation dates). In any case, the official celebrations of what that day represents are observed on the actual anniversary of that commemoration day. • Battle of Pichincha Day celebrations occur on May 24th. • National Day celebrations occur on August 10th, and Guayaquil Independence Day celebrations occur on October 9th, even if the public holiday (day off) has been moved to another date. • Carnaval: The Monday and Tuesday of Carnaval were only for banks and civil servants until 2006. Then, in 2007, for one year they were extended to all private sector workers, provided they compensated by working on 2 Saturdays (March 10 and 17). This system was subsequently extended to the years 2008-2009-2010-2011. • Guayaquil Day and Quito Day are observed respectively in those cities only. • The Presidential Investiture Day is only a public holiday in Quito and is not an annual holiday. • Ecuador International Codes EC and ECU (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .ec (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Ecuador information and news: Central Bank of Ecuador (Ecuador central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Ecuador maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Ecuador), and Wikipedia (includes Ecuador commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in Ecuador, the holiday may be regional or non-official or limited to certain religious and/or linguistic groups, or begin at a time other than midnight. Note that religious holidays are included only if they are national public holidays, or if the national labour code has specific holiday allowances for employees of specific religions. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

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In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2012 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Ecuador, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of Ecuador, before planning any trip to Ecuador. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.