1. Guaranda, Ecuador Sister City to Johnson City, TN since 1964

2. Johnson City - Guaranda Sister Cities Established 1964, JC Mayor May Ross McDowell Visits to Ecuador by –Community leaders –Researchers: Political Science, Sociology/Anthropology –Medical & Nursing Students Visits to Johnson City by –Public Health Faculty –High school & college students –Musical group

3. Johnson City - Guaranda Sister Cities Established 1964, JC Mayor May Ross McDowell Visits to Ecuador by –Community leaders –Researchers: Political Science, Sociology/Anthropology –Medical & Nursing Students Visits to Johnson City by –Public Health Faculty –High school & college students –Musical group

4. Sister Cities Pavilion Kiwanis International Park

5. Johnson City - Guaranda Ecuador: 2668 miles

6. Guaranda: 8800 elev. (2668m)

7. Chimborazo volcano. 6,310 metres (20,702 ft), near Guaranda

8. Church from distance Guaranda population 25,000

9. Bolivar Park, central plaza of Guaranda

11. Markets, Guaranda

13. Market at Guaranda, Ecuador

15. Hats at Market

16. Enrique, with Saragoza roots from Oriente

20. Guaranga Statue, Guaranda

21. Sculpture of Santa Maria

22. Cathedral, Guaranda

23. Saints Day Parade

26. Members of Son Cuatro con Yapa, at Siete Santos Café, Guaranda

27. Siete Santos Café, Guaranda

30. Street performers, Guaranda

32. Pumpkin vines Guaranda

33. UEB School of Agriculture

34. UEB College of Agriculture & Animal Husbandry

36. Universidad Estatal de Bolívar, Guaranda. College of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry

37. ETSU and UEB classes - Botany 2009

38. Course bus Touring bus for the ETSU (Johnson City) – UEB (Guaranda) Tropical Botany and Spanish Language summer courses

39. Vista de Cascha Totoras: view from the UEB-Guaranda biological station at Cascha Totoras, Bolívar, Ecuador

40. Vista de Cascha Totoras

41. Zapatillas - Calceolaria Cascha Totoras

42. Oreocallis, Cascha Totoras

43. Dr. Tim McDowell collecting plant specimens with the UEB-ETSU summer course, Cascha Totoras, 2009.

44. Fern sporangia, Cascha Totoras

45. Salvia Cascha Totoras

46. Dr. Manuel Alban, UEB Guaranda Public Health School

47. Ecuadorian Flag colors at Cashca Totoras (Bidens: yellow; Myosotis: blue; Salvia: red)

48. UEB Trout Farm

51. xxx ETSU & UEB students by large fig (Ficus), Rio Palenque, Ecuador

52. ETSU-UEB Summer Course in Otavalo 2009

53. ETSU-UEB summer courses 2010, in ESPEA, Tena, Ecuador

54. Agricultural lands near Guaranda

55. Vaccinium Flowers at UEB biological station, Cascha Totoras Siphocampylus

56. Llamas at Los Frailleones