Ecuador
country
Quito
capital city
Spanish
language(s)
USD
currency
283,560 km²
area
13,363,593
population
47.13 people/km²
population density
Ecuador
Regions of Ecuador
- Provincia de Bolívar
- Provincia de Cotopaxi
- Provincia de El Oro
- Provincia de Esmeraldas
- Provincia de Francisco de Orellana
- Provincia de Galápagos
- Provincia de Imbabura
- Provincia de Loja
- Provincia de Los Ríos
- Provincia de Manabí
- Provincia de Morona Santiago
- Provincia de Napo
- Provincia de Pichincha
- Provincia de Sucumbíos
- Provincia de Zamora Chinchipe
- Provincia del Azuay
- Provincia del Carchi
- Provincia del Cañar
- Provincia del Chimborazo
- Provincia del Guayas
- Provincia del Pastaza
- Provincia del Tungurahua
Ecuador description
Ecuador (IPA: /ˈɛkwədɔər/), officially the Republic of Ecuador (Spanish: República del Ecuador Spanish pronunciation: [re̞ˈpuβ̞lika ð̞e̞l e̞kwaˈðo̞ɾ]), literally, "Republic of the equator") is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America (with Chile) that does not have a border with Brazil.The country also includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 965 kilometers (600 miles) west of the mainland. Ecuador straddles the equator, from which it takes its name, and has an area of 256,371 square kilometers (98,985 mi²). Its capital city is Quito; its largest city is Guayaquil. Ecuador's capital is Quito, which is in the province of Pichincha in the Sierra region. Its largest city is Guayaquil, in the province of Guayas on the Coast. Cotopaxi, which is just south of Quito, features one of the world's highest active volcanoes. The top of Mount Chimborazo (6,310-m above sea level) is considered to be the most distant point from the center of the earth, given the ovoidal shape of the planet (wider at the equator). Although the country is not particularly large (the size of the U.S. state of Colorado), there is great variety in the climate, largely determined by altitude. The Pacific coastal area has a tropical climate, with a severe rainy season. The climate in the Andean highlands is temperate and relatively dry; and the Amazon basin on the eastern side of the mountains shares the climate of other rain forest zones. Because of its location at the equator, Ecuador experiences little variation in daylight hours during the course of a year.
