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Saturday 04 December 1999 00:02 GMT
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Cuenca, Ecuador

Panama hats actually come from Ecuador but were mis-named by the canal builders early this century. This workshop displays more than a hundred hats of various sizes and qualities, the finest of which take local weavers more than a month to plait. n

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