Ecuador is located in northwestern South America. It is bordered by Colombia, Peru, and the Pacific Ocean, and includes the Galapagos Islands. Ecuador has a diverse geography that includes coastlines, Andes Mountains, and Amazon Basin. The country has a varied climate and is divided into provinces. Ecuador has a mixed economy and its culture shows both indigenous and foreign influences in its languages, music, and cuisine. Popular dishes include seafood, bananas, potatoes, and meat.

1. ECUADOR

2. Location
Ecuador is a country located in
the northwestern part of
South America. The capital of
Ecuador is Quito.
It is bordered by Colombia on
the north, Peru on the east
and south, and by the Pacific
Ocean to the west.
The country also includes the
Galápagos Islands in the
Pacific, about 1,000
kilometres (620 mi) west of
the mainland.

3. History
The first known records of human
settlement in what is now Ecuador are
about 12,500 years ago. Vestiges of
the Paleo-Indian in El Inga, Las
Vegas, Chobsi, and cave paintings
Cubilán Amazon.
The pre-Hispanic history is divided into
periods known as Paleoindian,
Formative, Regional Development,
Integration and Inca. During the
training period was found using the
ceramic, and the Valdivia culture of
the candidates to have the oldest
pottery in the Americas. Also in this
period a large number of domesticated
plants, probably due to the great
biological diversity and climate in the
region

4. provinces
The Ecuadorian territory
is divided into 24
provinces, which are
divided into cantons,
they are divided into
parishes, which in turn
are divided into urban
or rural.

5. Geography
Ecuador is on the terrestrial equator so
their territory is found in both
hemispheres. Comprises two areas
distant from each other: the
northwest mainland of South
America with some islands off the
coast and on islands or Galapagos
island province, which lies 1000
km from the coast of Ecuador in
the Pacific Ocean

6. Relife
The main relief units are Ecuadorian coastal plain
north of the Gulf of Guayaquil, the section of the
Andes in the center of the country and a large
section of the Amazon basin located east of the
country.
To the southwest lies the Gulf of Guayaquil, Guayas
River where it empties into the Pacific Ocean.
Very close to Quito, the capital, on the Andes,
lies the Cotopaxi, the highest active volcano in
the world.
The point is Ecuador's highest volcano Chimborazo,
6313 m and whose summit is the farthest from
the core of the earth due to the elliptical shape of
the planet.

7. cotopaxi

8. Climate
Each climate zone has only
two seasons: wet and dry,
erroneously called "winter"
and "summer" respectively,
as in other regions of the
globe where their sites
close to the equator, no real
winters occur and summers.

9. Both the East Coast and in the
temperature ranges between 20 ° C
and 33 ° C, while in the mountains,
it is usually between 8 ° C and 26 °
C. The wet season extends from
December to May on the coast,
from November to April in the
mountains and from January to
September in the Amazon.
Galapagos has a temperate climate
and good temperature ranges
between 22 and 32 ° C,
approximately.

10. Flora and fauna
It has a rich fauna and flora
which is within the list of
diverse countries. Indeed, the
forest biome and tropical
forest extends for most of its
territory, while in the west,
adjacent to the coast, is also
the dry forest biome of
mangroves.

12. Language
The official language and
intercultural relations is
Spanish, with quirks and
idioms of each area or
region. Quichua, Shuar, the
tsáfiqui and "other ancestral
languages ​are for official
use for indigenous peoples,
in the terms established by
law".

13. Music
Ecuador has a variety of musical styles
popular both indigenous and foreign
influence. Among the highlights local
musical genres mixed rhythms as the
parade, the corridor yaraví, preemptive
strike, bolero, fife, Afro like bomba,
marimba, salsa, guaracha, mambo,
indigenous rhythms as the Andean
Folk music sanjuanito . Of foreign
influence genres like pop, rock,
merengue, salsa, vallenato, bachata,
ska, electronic music, dance, reggae,
heavy metal, punk, hip-hop.

14. Salsa

15. Gastronomy
Gastronomy of Ecuador is very diverse,
this is because within four natural
Regines are coastal, mountain east and
insular region.
Some of the popular dishes
are fish soup seafood, fish
ceviche, corviches,
muffins, casseroles, fish
stew with peanut encocado,
etc.. A typical dish from the
coast is called Fish Stew.

16. Ecuador is a major exporter of
bananas, so this represents an
important element in the
food, especially on the coast.
There are three main varieties
of bananas, the three most
important being: green
bananas, ripe plantain and
bananas. The plantains should
be cooked before being eaten.

17. The vegetables are present in different
forms, rice, green or ripe bananas,
cassava, or peanut sauce roasted
and ground. Corn is usually eaten
in the popular corn tortillas
known , cook the corn in water and
salt, and eat porridge with cheese.
Like beans, which accompany
many of their dishes. The mashed
potatoes or serve as a basis for
dishes like llapingachos which are
potato pancakes or Stews.

18. Usually eat beef, pork, lamb, goat and
chicken too. Some plates are combian
with vegetables, such as chicken dry.
qque are troztos chicken served with
rice.
there is also a dish poupular the part of
the mountains of Ecuador, which is the
yaguarloco, a potato soup, which has
as an ingredient lamb and a special
sauce that tasted visiting sabra
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19. Beverages
Cane spirits are very
popular in some regions
such as Ecuador Loja
and Manabi

20. Ecuador is a country where you can find variety of
things, you can also visit many exotic places such
as Cotopaxi, the viewpoint of Quito.