A community portal about Ecuador with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bounded by Colombia on the north, by Peru...
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A community portal about Ecuador with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bounded by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean on the west. The country also includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 965 kilometers west of the mainland. Ecuador is the Spanish word for equator. Ecuador straddles the equator and has an area of 256,370 square kilometers. Its capital city is Quito.
Category: Politics
Ecuador's defense minister Javier Ponce is scheduled to pay an
official visit to Peru to meet with his Peruvian counterpart,
Ántero Flores-Aráoz (right), on August 21.
Both ministers wi...[more]
QUITO, Ecuador — An Air Force officer is assuming his post as the last chief of a drug-interdiction air base in Ecuador before its lease runs out next year. Lt. Col. Jared Curtis took command Wednesday in a ceremony at the base in the Pacific port ...
QUITO, Ecuador, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Ivanhoe Energy Executive Chairman, President and CEO Robert Friedland confirmed today, in response to numerous enquiries and media reports, that the company, as previously disclosed, is in detailed ...
QUITO -(Dow Jones)- Brazilian company Norberto Odebrecht SA should pay a fine of $24 million and invest around $24 million to repair the San Francisco hydroelectric plant, National Anticorruption Secretary Alfredo Vera said Tuesday.
QUITO (Dow Jones)--Ecuador's exports to the Andean countries totaled $1.54 billion in the first five months of the year, an increase of 72% from the $896 million registered in the same period of 2007, the central bank said Tuesday. Ecuadorian imports ...
QUITO, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Support for Ecuadorean leftist President Rafael Correa continues to grow before a referendum to approve a new constitution that would expand his authority in the OPEC nation, polls showed on Tuesday. Independent pollster ...
They lie some 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador. Most of the land is included in a national park, and the waters surrounding the islands form one of the ...
It's not a journey to the center of the Earth, exactly, but if you're in Quito, Ecuador, with three or four hours to kill, you can take a cab ride to the Middle of the World. The country is, after all, named for the equator, and Quito makes the most of its proximity.
The view is spectacular from a cable car that lifts you to the nearly 16,000-foot summit of Pichincha. Straddling two hemispheres at the equator - at least how the government defines it - the author visits Mitad del Mundo (Middle of the World). The ...
BANGALORE: Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) will set up a maintenance base at Ecuador with which it has secured an order to supply seven Dhruv - Advanced Light Helicopters (ALH). HAL Chairman Ashok Baweja said that the maintenance base to be set ...
Mark Mary and Tom take on Lat Am: Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, Peru and the Inca Trail,Cusco, Machu Picchu and the Sacred Valley and, finally, Chile, Santiago to sample some wine before home.
Montecristi, Ecuador, Jul 25 A new Ecuador has been born with the approval of a bright National Constitution, affirmed Constituent Assembly President Fernando Cordero.