a) House, to any building made of permanent materials, such as: concrete, brick, adobe, wood, etc., and which has a floor made of wood, stone tile or brick, and a ceiling;

b) Villa, to any building like the previous one and which has a garden at the entrance to the structure.

c) "Mediagua" (small construction with sloped roof), to any building of only one floor, with walls made of adobe or adobón, without a ceiling and with an earth floor.

d) Shack (covacha), to any building of only one floor, made of cane or a mixture of sticks, cane and mud, without a ceiling and with a floor made of cane or earth;

e) Rustic cabin (choza), to any building that has adobe or straw walls, an earth floor, and a straw roof;

f) Rancho, to a building that is generally raised off the ground with piles or posts, has a floor made of cane or logs, walls made of cane and covered by palm branches or by some other type of plant (bijao [tropical plant with leaves like those of a banana tree], cadi [a type of large Ecuadorian palm tree] or cade, cane leaves, etc); and

g) Other, is any lightweight building, different from those previously mentioned, such as shacks, tents, palm-tree huts, etc.