The official name is the Republic of Ecuador (Republica del Ecuador). Located in the northwestern part of South America. The area is 283.6 thousand km2, the population is 13.5 million people. (2002). The official language is Spanish. The capital is Quito (1.487 million people, 2002). Public holiday – Independence Day on August 10. Monetary units…
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Ecuador Geography and History
The country got its name from the equator, the longest of all parallels, which divides the globe into a northern and southern half. This was measured by a French expedition in 1736. The equator runs only 15 km north of the capital Quito and moves the country “en la mitad del mundo” – “in the…
Ecuador Human Geography
Since the pre -Inca era, the Indian peoples had settled almost exclusively in the inter-Andean belt, where the incas arrived founded Quito, which remained the main city of the country even with the Spaniards. However, these began the population of the coast, which they endowed with various port centers, among which Guayaquil emerged, and where…