What do people like (and dislike) about Cotacachi?
When we asked expats and global nomads what they like and dislike about living in Cotacachi, they replied...
"I've been here five years and for a while, I had a PO box in Otavalo but only ever received one letter, I had a package sent (a GPS Unit) from Western Canada that was sent via Canada Post to what is basically General Delivery, Cotatachi. It did arrive, by a miracle, six months to the day after it was sent. I only found out about it because I went to the post office to ask another question and they said there was a package. During the pandemic, both the Cotacachi and Otavalo post offices closed their doors. The one in Cotacachi is now a very nice coffee shop. In Otavalo I think it's just locked up. I had some documents that needed to be sent, signed and sent back north and did it all via DHL.! $125 CAD to send the envelope here and $65US to send it on. But it works. Other than municipalities there are no house or street addresses. Where we live it is virtually impossible to describe our location for deliveries, so I tell whatever entity is sending to send it to their local office and I go to pick it up. That works great. Be sure to include your local (cell) number as part of the address so they can phone you to let you know that it has arrived. We're currently waiting for my Ecuadorian wife's passport to be returned from the US Embassy with her US visitor's visa installed and I assume they will send it to the DHL office in Otavalo where we will pick it up. It's not an efficient work-around but it is better than the pony express, marginally," remarked another expat who made the move to Cotacachi, Ecuador.
"We love Cotacachi, have become completely integrated here, started an animal rescue foundation and hospital, have now started an indigenous community project and have homesteaded a large and functioning animal farm. Ecuador is a dream come true," explained one expat living in Cotacachi, Ecuador.
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What do people like (and dislike) about Cotacachi?
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