Our Surprising World: Ecuador

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Ecuador Image Trip

Historical Building In Ecuador

Man In Ecuador

Bird Ecuador

A Lake In Ecuador

Beautiful Birds In Ecuador

Ecuador Girls

Buildings In Ecuador

Church In Ecuador

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Ecuador Present Life Best Images

Beautiful Ecuador

Public Park In Ecuador

New Ecuador Beautiful Building

Color full Building In Ecuador

Beautiful Ecuador

Roads In Ecuador

Dry Leafs On A Road

Present Life In Ecuador

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Daily Life In Ecuador, Ecuador Amzaing Images Collection

Ecuador Beauty

Beautiful Flower

Ecuador BAR

Homes In Ecuador

Inside View Of Home In Ecuador

Pea Cock

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Ecuador Home Life

Biggest Butterfly Beautiful Butterfly

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Ecuador Most Beautiful Images.

Ecuador officially the Republic of Ecuador (Spanish: República del Ecuador; pronounced [reˈpuβlika ðel ekwaˈðor], which literally translates to the Republic of the Equator) is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border with Brazil. The country also includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) west of the mainland.

Ecuador straddles the equator, from which it takes its name, and has an area of 272,046 km2 (109,483 sq mi). Its capital city is Quito, which was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in the 1970s for having the best preserved and least altered historic centre in Latin America.The country's largest city is Guayaquil. The historic centre of Cuenca, the third largest city in the country, was also declared a World Heritage Site in 1999, for being an outstanding example of a planned inland Spanish style colonial city in the Americas. Ecuador is also home—despite its size—to a great variety of species, many of them endemic, like those of the Galápagos islands. This species diversity makes Ecuador one of the 17 megadiverse countries in the world. The new constitution of 2008 is the first in the world to recognize legally enforceable Rights of Nature, or ecosystem rights.

Ecuador is a presidential republic and became independent in 1830, after having been part of the Spanish colonial empire and the republic of Gran Colombia. It is a medium-income country with an HDI score of 0.695 (2010), and about 35.1% of its population lives below the poverty line.