According to allcitypopulation, Ecuador is located in the northwestern part of South America and has a total area of 283,561 square kilometers. It is bordered by Colombia to the north, Peru to the south and east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Ecuador has a diverse topography with coastal lowlands in the west, the… Read More »
According to ehealthfacts, Ecuador is a South American nation located on the western coast of the continent. It has a total area of 283,561 km2 (109,483 sq mi) and a population of approximately 17 million people. The capital city is Quito and it is home to the country’s largest port. Ecuador’s two main bordering countries… Read More »
According to dentistrymyth, Ecuador is located in South America. It is bordered by Colombia to the north and Peru to the east and south. The capital of Ecuador is Quito which is located near Andes Mountains. Other major cities include Guayaquil in southwestern Ecuador near Pacific Ocean coast, Cuenca in southern Ecuador near Andes Mountains,… Read More »
The national road network in Ecuador is called the Red Vial Estatal (RVE). The length was 9,998 kilometers as of March 31, 2018. The total road network is estimated at approximately 43,670 kilometers. A large part of the secondary road network is unpaved, but the national roads are almost all asphalted and in good condition,… Read More »
Culture of business dealings Subchapters: Introduction Addressing Business Meeting Communication Recommendations Public holidays Introduction Business negotiations in Ecuador have similar specifics as in other Latin American countries. It is important to arm yourself with patience and repeatedly check business partners. The loosening of measures related to the Covid-19 pandemic partially returns negotiations to a traditional,… Read More »
Basic data Capital Quito Population 17.8 million (2021) Language Spanish Religion Catholics (74%), Protestants (10.3%) State system presidential republic Head of State Guillermo Lasso Head of government Francisco Jimenez Currency name American dollar Travel Time shift -6 hours (in summer -7 hours) Economy 2021 Nominal GDP (billion USD) 208.8 Economic growth (%) 3.8 Inflation (%)… Read More »
Ecuador is located in northwestern South America, bordering Colombia and Peru. The country is considered relatively safe and is a popular travel destination, mainly because of the Galápagos Islands. With a very varied landscape, visitors will find a wide range of possibilities, from dreamlike beaches to the high mountains in the Andes. Capital City Quito… Read More »
Although largely subjected to Inca domination and having, especially for the southern districts, absorbed various cultural elements, Ecuador at the beginning of the century. XVI still had numerous populations that preserved purely local arts and traditions, more similar, albeit superior, to the culture of the Colombian Chibcha than to that of the invading Quechua. Among… Read More »
General writings and travel reports: T. Wolf, Geografia y geologia del Ecuador, Leipzig 1892 (work of fundamental importance); W. Sievers, Die Cordillerenstaaten, II: Ecuador, Colombia und Venezuala, Berlin and Leipzig 1913; C. Enock, Ecuador, London 1914; R. Riccardi, Ecuador in its present natural and economic conditions, in Bull. R. soc. Geogr. ital., 1922, pp. 393-424,… Read More »
Fauna. – The fauna of Ecuador has a purely neotropical character. Numerous platyrrine monkeys such as varî Cebus, Lagotrix, the common reddish howler monkey (Mycetes seniculus), some Hapale, etc. There are many bats belonging to the region. Insectivores are missing, a fact common to all the neotropical fauna. Carnivorous, artiodactyls, including the Guanaco (Lama guanacus)… Read More »
Republic of South America. The name comes from the fact that it is crossed by the equatorial line. It borders to N. with Colombia and with Peru, to Ecuador and S. also with Peru; to the West it faces the Pacific with a development coastline of approximately one thousand kilometers. The Galápagos island group, officially… Read More »
Communications. – Given the mountainous nature of much of the country, communication between the various regions is not easy. The network of inland waterways is quite extensive: the Guayas, the Daule, the Caracol, the Esmeraldas and the Río de Naranjal are crossed by regular steam navigation services; in the East, rivers are the only means… Read More »
The total population of Ecuador as of January 1935 was estimated at 2,646,600 residents The following table shows the population of the various administrative divisions. In 1935 the population of the most important cities was as follows: Quito, 115,000 residents (with the surroundings, 236,000); Guayaquil, 136,000 (with its surroundings, 200,000); Cuenca, 45,000; Riobamba, 23,000; Ambato,… Read More »
The very long conflict between Ecuador and Peru for the possession of the vast Amazonian territories ended in January 1942 when, following the mediation of other American states, the new border was established between the two republics. This in the first stretch to the West is rather sinuous and following the course of some rivers… Read More »
Surface. – Several new planimetric measurements of the surface of Ecuador have been carried out within the borders established with Peru in 1942, measurements that have given somewhat different results; the most commonly accepted figure is 270,670 km 2. Population. – On November 29, 1950, the first population census gave 3 million 202,757 residents for… Read More »
Ecuador is a state of South America; capital Quito. It borders to the North with Colombia, to the East and to the South with Peru ; to the West it overlooks the Pacific Ocean. It is crossed by the equator, which gives it its name. It belongs to the East. the Galápagos archipelago, 980 km from… Read More »
Physical characters The territory of Ecuador it should be distinguished in a coastal region (Costa), an Andean (Sierra) and an Amazonian (East) region. The Sierra (1/4 of the total area) consists of two ranges, the Western Cordillera and the Eastern (or Royal) Cordillera. There are about forty volcanic systems, many of which are active (Chimborazo,… Read More »
Human and economic geography The political and institutional crisis, which affected the country between 2003 and 2004, has increased the problems of the economy, aggravated by a high rate of unemployment (which has decreased in recent years only thanks to the increase in migratory flows of labor) and the absence of foreign investors. A positive… Read More »
A country of rapid and uneven development Ecuador is a country rich in agricultural and mineral resources (among which oil stands out): but it has an insufficient number of residents to support the national economy, too great social differences, a territory cut off by the Andes and difficult to organize. Wealth is concentrated in a… Read More »
During the nineties the Indians of Ecuador they assumed an active role – for them completely new – in the economic and political affairs of the nation. In addition to proudly claiming their cultural traditions, the Indians defended, as an alternative to the neoliberal model of development advocated by the parties in power, the collective… Read More »
Population During the nineties, the economic and social conditions of the Ecuador they have progressively improved, even if not all the demographic components of the country have benefited equally. Expression of this evolution is mainly the sharp decline in infant mortality, which fell from 90, 4 ‰ in the late sixties to 34 ‰ in… Read More »
When, in January 1976, a military triumvirate put an end to the authoritarian but nationalist and modernizing regime of General GR Lara, Ecuador it looked like a different country than in the past. The campaign for oil, with the drastic reduction of the privileges of multinationals and the creation of a public oil company, had… Read More »
Literature. – The echo of the exuberant production begun around the thirties in Ecuador has not yet died out and several writers belonging to that generation have continued to publish works of considerable importance. Aguilera Malta himself, who had moved to Mexico in those years, published in 1970 his great novel Siete lunas y sei… Read More »
Ecuador is a country made up of a largely Indian population, made the subject of painting as a somatic type, in its customs, in its natural habitat, but without touching the problem of its submission and misery. It is with P. León (1894-1956) that painting emerges from the subordination to the rules and the Indian… Read More »
Population. – According to registry estimates, the population amounted, in 1990, to 10.78 million residents. The notable increase, equal to 48% in just over a decade, was due, in addition to the very high average growth coefficient (2.9% per year in the five-year period 1984-89), to considerable immigration flows. All this has caused extensive urbanization… Read More »
History. – Back in power, Velasco Ibarra appealed to demagogy: he promised land, houses and high wages; at his inauguration he declared null and void (1 September 1960), in general exultation, the treaty reached with difficulty with Peru in 1949, which resolved a thorny question of borders. He appointed the philocastrist M. Araújo Hidalgo as… Read More »
Surface. – The Ecuadorian territory, according to the official data available (see table), extends for km 2 263,777, but according to calculations carried out by the UN the surface would be 283,561 km 2 ; other sources give instead the figure of 281,561 km 2, always including the Galápagos islands. Population. – According to the… Read More »
The excavations carried out in the north of the country along the coasts of Manabí and Esmeraldas, in Azuay and Cañar, have brought to light the traces of a civilization prior to the Incasic conquest and already quite developed in the decoration of domestic objects and in general in the so-called arts. minors. The architecture… Read More »
According to the legend of the Scyri, the oldest residents of the current republic of Ecuador would have been the Quitu. Towards the year 800 d. C. the Caras or Scyri invaded their territory, founded the city of Cara, discovered the Esmeraldas River, and became masters of the kingdom. Then followed the invasion of the… Read More »
There are no population data for Ecuador that are the result of regular censuses. A census was carried out in 1900; but the results were never published. In 1889 T. Wolf estimated the population of Ecuador at 1,192,000; at the beginning of the current century, other calculations made it amount to about 1,400,000 residents; recent… Read More »