Ecuador
Republic of Ecuador República del Ecuador | |
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Motto:
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Caipital | Quito 00°9′S 78°21′W / 0.150°S 78.350°W |
Lairgest ceety | Guayaquil |
Offeecial leids | Spaingie[1] |
Recognised regional leids | Kichwa (Quichua), Shuar & ithers "are in offeecial uise for indigenous fowks"[2] |
Ethnic groups ([3]) |
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Demonym(s) | Ecuadorian |
Govrenment | Unitary presidential constitutional republic |
• Preses | Guillermo Lasso |
Alfredo Borrero | |
Legislatur | National Assembly |
Unthirldom | |
• | August 10, 1809 |
• frae Spain | Mey 24, 1822 |
• frae Gran Colombia | Mey 13, 1830 |
• Recognized | Februar 16, 1830 |
September 28, 2008 | |
Aurie | |
• Total | 283,561[4] km2 (109,484 sq mi) (73rd) |
• Water (%) | 5 |
Population | |
• 2011 estimate | 15,223,680[1] (65t) |
• 2010 census | 14,483,499[5] |
• Density | 58.95/km2 (152.7/sq mi) (151st) |
GDP (PPP) | 2012 estimate |
• Total | $153.239 billion[6] |
• Per capita | $10,055[6] |
GDP (nominal) | 2012 estimate |
• Tot | $84.53 billion [7] (64th) |
• Per capita | $5,310[6] |
Gini (2009) | ![]() heich |
HDI (2011) | ![]() heich · 89t |
Currency | Unitit States dollarb (USD) |
Time zone | UTC−5 / −6 (ECT / GALT) |
Drivin side | right |
Cawin code | +593 |
ISO 3166 code | EC |
Internet TLD | .ec |
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Ecuador (i/ˈɛkwədɔːr/ E-kwə-dawr), offeecially the Republic o Ecuador (Spaingie: República del Ecuador, Spaingie pronunciation: [reˈpuβlika ðel ekwaˈðoɾ]), leeterally "Republic o the equator"), is a representative democratic republic in Sooth Americae, thit mairches bi Colombie tae the north, Peru tae the east an sooth, an the Paceefic Ocean tae the wast. It is ane o anerlie twa kintras in Sooth Americae (thegither wi Chile) that disna hae a mairch wi Brazil. The kintra forby includes the Galápagos Islands in the Paceefic, aboot 965 kilometre (600 mile) wast o the mainland. Ecuador striddles the equator, fae whilk it taks its name, an haes a aurie o 256,371 square kilometres (98,985 mi²). Its caipital ceety is Quito an its lairgest ceety is Guayaquil. Ecuador is yin o the 17 megadiverse kintras in the warld, bi the Warld Conservation Monitorin Centre's wey o it.
Provinces[eedit | eedit soorce]
Ecuador haes 24 provinces (Spaingie: provincias):
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Historic Center o Quito, UNESCO World Heritage Site[eedit | eedit soorce]
San Francisco (Quito)
Basílica del Voto Nacional (Quito)
Catedral Metropolitana (Quito)
La Compañía (Quito)
Santo Domingo (Quito)
Centro Cultural Metropolitano (Quito)
Palacio Hidalgo (Quito)
Palacio Gangotena (Quito)
La Merced (Quito)
San Diego (Quito)
Museo Numismático (Quito)
Catedral metropolitana (Guayaquil)
Catedral de la Inmaculada Consepción (Cuenca)
Catedral antigua (Cuenca)
Catedral (Portoviejo)
Basílica (Ambato)
Loma de Quito (Riobamba)
La Concepción (Riobamba)
Catedral (Riobamba)
Catedral (Loja)
Santo Domingo (Loja)
San Francisco (Loja)
San Sebastián (Loja)
Basílica de la Dolorosa (Ibarra)
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ a b "Ecuador". CIA World Factbook. Archived frae the original on 12 Juin 2007. Retrieved 18 August 2011.
- ↑ Constitución Política de la República del Ecuador. ecuanex.net.ec/consitucion.
- ↑ Población del país es joven y mestiza, dice censo del INEC. eluniverso.com. Data from the national census 2010 (2011-09-02)
- ↑ "Ecuador-Geography". CIA World Factbook. United States Central Intelligence Agency. Archived frae the original on 12 Juin 2007. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
- ↑ Ecuadorian census held on November 28, 2010 Archived 2014-09-30 at the Wayback Machine. inec.gob.ec.
- ↑ a b c "Ecuador". International Monetary Fund. Retrieved 18 Apryle 2013.
- ↑ http://data.worldbank.org/country/ecuador#cp_wdi World Bank Data
- ↑ "Gini Index". World Bank. Retrieved 2 Mairch 2011.
- ↑ "Human Development Report 2011" (PDF). United Nations. 2011. Retrieved 5 November 2011.
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