General Information Learn about this fascinating country One of the smallest of the Andean countries, Ecuador is also one of the easiest to visit. There are mountains to climb, jungles to explore, beaches to laze about upon, and the Galapagos to marvel.
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Ecuador is the smallest of the Andean countries, but it has a lot to see and do packed into its borders. The four distinct areas of Ecuador – sierra (mountains), Oriente (jungle), ocean coast, and the Galapagos Islands – each offer different sights and experiences.
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 The traveler should be aware of habits, attitudes and values of the society being visited to help smooth out some of the edges when interacting host nationals. Here are some interesting and essential items about Ecuadorian society. Greetings are very important to Ecuadorians. Whenever you meet someone, you need to greet them appropriately, with the greeting occurring before any other talk.
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Education, Religion and Language |
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 Ecuador is a multiethnic and pluricultural nation. It has a population of more than 12.6 million. Of these, five and a half million live in the highlands. Six and a half million of Ecuador’s inhabitants live on the Pacific coast. The Amazon region is home to more than six hundred thousand inhabitants and nearly seventeen thousand live in the Galapagos Islands.
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 The following describes some facets of Ecuadorian art and culture. The text is of a general and illustrative nature, and is not intended to be thorough. Through archeological discoveries on the American continent. We are coming in more and more contact with primitive man and with the art that forged his mind; although limited in his advances, it is not any less significant an attempt to give shape to his surrounding reality. |
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  Its strategic location means that many investors and businessmen of the 21st century come to Quito. From the middle of the world the country opens it doors to commercial and cultural exchange.
Petroleum has been the main source of foreign currency to the country for the past 25 years.
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 Straddling the equator in western South America, Ecuador has territories in both the Northern and the Southern hemispheres. It borders Colombia to the north and shares a border Peru to the south and to the east.
The Pacific Ocean is Ecuador’s western border. Ecuador, 256,370 square kilometers in size, is geographically divided into four regions (the Amazon, the Highlands, the Coast, and the Galapagos Islands) and is politically split into 24 provinces, which, in turn, are split into 212 cantons. |
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 After the collapse of Gran Colombia, the Republic of Ecuador was created in 1830. Since them political conflict has characterized life in the Republic. The new State was unable to integrate the different regions. The mountain region and the coast developed in different ways. Also, autonomous local bodies formed which entered into conflict with the state and which, in addition, administered their own resources. Neither was there a unified currency, which seriously affected the existence of a central power. Actually the presindent Correa is in his first year of power. |
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