Translations:Portal:Ruta del Spondylus/11/en

The Ruta del Spondylus takes its name from the thorny oyster shell that was the most sacred trade item of pre-Columbian Ecuador. For millennia, coastal peoples exchanged Spondylus as currency, offering, and symbol of rain and fertility — and the network of communities along this coast were the ones who harvested, traded, and worshipped it.