General
Information:Complete name: Republic of Ecuador
Area: 283,520 km2 (175,780 mi2)
Population: 11,700,000 (growth rate: 2%)
Capital: Quito (1.5 million inhabitants)
Main Port:Guayaquil (2 million inhabitants)
Race: 40% mestizo, 40% indian, 15% coming from spaniards, 5% coming
from africans
Language: spanish, quechua, quichua and other indigenous languages
Religion:More than 90% catholic, and a minority of other christian
churches
Ecuador is located
in the northeastern region of South America and its boundaries are Colombia
at the north, Peru at the south and west and the Pacific Ocean at the
east. Its main cities are Quito, the capital, located in the center of
the country and at a few kilometers from the ecuadorial line, Guayaquil,
the second city and main port of the country and Cuenca at the so. Ecuador
has three main regions: the Coast, the Andean Region and the Amazonic
Region, as well as the Galapagos Islands.
Has also some ecological reserves, as the Podocarpus National Park, a
beautiful and attractive place for tourists, the Puyango forest, where
you can find the millenial petrified trees and some other places. The
Andean Region is the area of volcanoes, such as the Cotopaxi, the highest
active volcano in the world, the Chimborazo and the Cayambe. Tropical
rainforest, an immense biodiversity of plants and animals and very interesting
places as Misahualli, are the main quality of the Amazonic Region. Along
the Coast are located paradise beaches in the near of the main cities,
as Atacames, Bahia de Caraquez, Salinas, etc.
Ecuador
has one of the greatest biodiversities of the world. It has an endless
number of mammals like monkeys, whales, llamas and alpacas. Its wide
variety of birds makes possible to have places for birdwatching, where
tourists from all over the world are coming all the time to enjoy these
marvellous animals.