A Time for Horses, A Time For Canoes

Flooded cattle plains near Salitre, in Ecuador’s coastal Guayas Province. For eight months of the year these grasslands teem with zebus watched over by many cowboys. Come the rains in January, and the men move the cattle to higher ground, leaving the savanna as a vast shallow lake covered in many places by water lilies. During four months, until the rains stop and the waters recede, the men will have to cook their own meals, for women and children will remain behind, now moving around by canoe. The seasonal effects on these lowland people and their landscape are stunning.