The Marich family, banana growers
About 200 km south of Guayaquil near the town of Machala, the Marić family, originally from the island of Vis, grows bananas. Six brothers and one sister are all [...]
Casa Barukcic from Quito, Ecuador
Engineer JURE BARUKČIĆ founded a company called Cosmeticos Barukcic in 1961, which took care of the appearance of the skin of both women and men. Later, working under the name [...]
Croatians in Ecuador
Settling in South America, Croats also came to Ecuador at the end of the 19th century. They first settled the province of Manabi, which is located by the ocean [...]
Meeting of Croatian emigration in Guayaquil
The 4th meeting of Croats of South America was held in Guayaquil, which began with the registration of participants on October 26, 2018. According to current practice, it is [...]
My visit to Chiloe
The island of Chiloe is located approximately halfway up the Chilean coast in the Pacific. In terms of surface area, it is about 20 times larger than our island [...]
An Olive tree in the Antofagasta Street in Split
Antofagasta Street was named in honor of the Sister Cities Split and the Chilean city of Antofagasta. Unfortunately, most of its residents do not know that one of the oldest [...]
Some postcards from New Zealand
It was always nice to receive a postcard from the other side of the world, a custom that is slowly being lost with the development of technology. Nowadays, everyone [...]
Mateo Vuscovic in Antofagasta
This is a story of Dusan Vuskovic about his grandfather: My Grandfather Mate was a son of Petar Vuskovic and Dominga Sanseovic. He was born on December 28, 1900 in [...]
Famous Argentinian – Croatian painter
Zdravko Dučmelić was born in Vinkovci in 1923 in the family of Jucika and Franjo, and he also had an older brother Željko. He finished high school in his [...]
Luis Aviles Uscocovich from Guayaquil, Ecuador
Luis Aviles Uscocovich (Uskoković) was born in Guayquil, Ecuador in 1967. He is a lawyer, founder of the Ecuadorian business and Cultural Society and president of the Croatian Society. [...]