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23 unusual facts about Ecuador


Archdean

Even in the 20th century it was maintained as a dignity among the canons of a cathedral chapters, occasionally alongside a dean (as in Ibarra, Ecuador).

Buddleja ibarrensis

Buddleja ibarrensis is an endangered species endemic to a small area of Ecuador in the vicinity of Ibarra in subtropical or tropical moist montane forest at an elevation of 2,200 m threatened by deforestation.

Carlos Garcés

Carlos Jhon Garcés Acosta (born March 1, 1990 in Manta) is an Ecuadorian footballer who plays as a forward for Deportivo Quito.

Chaunus amabilis

The apparent declines of this species might in part be due to the modification of much of the Loja basin area for agriculture, urbanization, and other regional development.

Édison Méndez

Édison Vicente Méndez Méndez (born March 16, 1979 in Ibarra) is an Ecuadorian football attacking midfielder who plays for Santa Fe in Colombia and the Ecuadorian national team.

Efrén Mera

Mera began his professional career in his hometown of Manta playing for Green Cross's youth division.

El Cajas

A road from Chaucha to San Joaquin touches on the southern border of the park providing access.

Emilio Cruz

In 1994, Cruz's work was shown as part of the American contingent at the IV Bienal Internacional de Pintura en Cuenca, Ecuador.

Friends of the Mission Clinic of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Inc.

Founded in 2001 by ordained Catholic priest Father Georg Nigsch of Austria, the Mission Clinic is part of the social ministry of the Catholic Church of Zamora, Ecuador.

Luis García Anchundia

Luis Antonio García Anchundia (born September 20, 1993 in Chone) is an Ecuadorian footballer.

Luis H. Salgado

Luis Humberto Salgado (Cayambe 1903 - Quito 1977) was an Ecuadorian composer.

Mitad del Mundo

Catequilla Arqueological Site, a prehispanic observatory at Pomasqui Valley Zone, Ecuador.

Molinillo

Matisia grandifolia, also known as Molinillo, a flowering plant from Ecuador

MV Jessica

The Jessica was an oil tanker that was involved in an oil spill in the Galápagos Islands, a chain of islands 972 km (525 nmi) west of continental Ecuador, of which they are a part.

Narcisa de Jesús

Narcisa then moved to the city of Cuenca where she went from home to home, living with whoever would take her including the Blessed Mercedes de Jesús Molina to allow herself greater privacy for prayer and penance.

Nataly Chilet

In October, 2007, she participated in "Beauty for a cause" realized in Dominican Republic and in 2008, she took part in "Fiesta de la fruta y de las flores" in Ambato, Ecuador.

Naya o La Chapetona

In 2004 the municipality of Zamora, Ecuador constructed, and placed in the center of town, a monument of "Naya o la Chapetona" the protagonist of the novel of the same name.

Nebulosa fulvipalpis

It is found on mid elevations on the western slope of the Andes, from Cali, Colombia, south to Pichincha, Ecuador.

Patricio Urrutia

The following year, he was traded to Técnico Universitario in Ambato in 1998.

Philemona Williamson

In 1994, Williamson's work was shown as part of the American contingent at the IV Bienal Internacional de Pintura en Cuenca, Ecuador.

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador

There are however also seats in Ambato (established in 1982), Esmeraldas (1981), Ibarra (1976), Santo Domingo de los Colorados (1996) and a regional seat in the province of Manabí (1993).

Upano River

There are numerous river overlooks including one a block from the central park of Logroño.

Winchester, Virginia

During the Eisenhower administration, Winchester also formalized a sister city relationship with Ambato, Ecuador.


ActionQuest

ActionQuest runs sailing and SCUBA training programs throughout the Caribbean, Australia, Ecuador and the Galapagos, Tahiti, and the Mediterranean.

Adiantum alarconianum

It has been collected in a number of locations in western Ecuador and in the Galápagos Islands, and in the nearby Tumbes Province of Peru.

Aiphanes chiribogensis

It is known from Pichincha Province in northwestern Ecuador, and was collected from Azuay Province in southwestern Ecuador 1943 but the area where it was collected has suffered extensive deforestation, and attempts to find it again in that area have been unsuccessful.

Alberto Montaño

Towards the end of his career he played for a number of teams in Ecuador before finishing his career in the lower leagues of Argentine football with Juventud Antoniana and then Atlanta and of Santiago Wanderers in Chile.

Andean Siskin

The nominate subspecies occurs in coastal mountains of northern Aragua in north Venezuela, the Andes of westerm Venezuela, through the Serranía del Perijá and the eastern Andes in Colombia south to Valle, Putumayo, Nariño and Pichincha Province in Ecuador.

Argenis Moreira

Erwin Argenis Moreira Alcivar (born June 15, 1987 in Manta) is an Ecuadorian football defender who plays for Deportivo Cuenca.

Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz

Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz (born November 12, 1912 in Cotacachi, Imbabura, Ecuador and died on April 6, 2000 in Quito Ecuador) was a Roman Catholic Cardinal.

Bomarea goniocaulon

It is endemic to Ecuador, where it has been collected only three times in the Pichincha Province.

Carlos María de la Torre

Carlos María Javier de la Torre y Nieto (November 14, 1873, Quito, Ecuador – July 31, 1968, Quito, Ecuador) was an Ecuadorian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Champús

Champús is a drink popular in Peru, Ecuador and southwest Colombia (Departments of Valle del Cauca, Cauca and Nariño), made with maize, fruits such as lulo (also known as naranjilla), pineapple, quince or guanábana, sweetened with panela and seasoned with cinnamon, cloves and orange tree leaves.

Daniel Viteri

Daniel Jimmy Viteri Vinces (born December 12, 1981 in Guayaquil) is an Ecuadoran footballer who plays for LDU Quito.

Ecuador national rugby union team

The only current professional rugby player from Ecuador is Miguel Ángel Coronel Densy who plays for the current Spanish champions La Vila in the División de Honor and the Amlin Challenge Cup.

Enner Valencia

Valencia came to Guayaquil to try out in Emelec in 2008 from Caribe Junior's youth system, the same team where Ecuador star Antonio Valencia played on his early years, .

Foreign relations of Ecuador

Ecuador is a founding member of the UN and a member of many of its specialized agencies; it is also a member of the OAS.

Foreign relations of Peru

The United States Government, as one of four guarantor states, was actively involved in facilitating the 1998 peace accord between Peru and Ecuador and remains committed to its implementation.

Friends of FundeCruz

The Afro-Ecuadorian village of Piquiucho in northern Ecuador's Valle del Chota is a three-hour drive from Quito, the nation's capital.

George Febres

George Febres (born Jorge Xavier Febres Cordero Icaza, Guayaquil, 10 September 1943 – 1996) was an Ecuadorian-born painter, internationally acclaimed for his wildly imaginative style and humorous "visual puns."

Gilded Barbet

The Gilded Barbet ranges in the eastern Andes drainages to the rivers of the western Amazon Basin from eastern Colombia-Venezuela, eastern Ecuador, from north to south-eastern Peru, and northern Bolivia; in Bolivia the Barbet only ranges on the headwater tributaries to the north-easterly flowing Madeira River.

Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction

Yolanda Kakabadse, President of WWF and Chair of the Advisory Board of Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano, Ecuador

Icaleptidae

Although Icaleptidae have until now only been described from Ecuador (Cotopaxi) and northern Colombia (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta), they are expected to occur in Venezuela.

Jinsop

Soon after he became a member of The Apostles, and one of the judges of the aforementioned festival, Héctor Napolitano, who was a famed singer at the time, invited him to the recording studio of the label Ifesa to interpret the songs of Paul Anka and other artists, and that is how he released his first album called Puppy Love, which reached major airplay throughout Ecuador, and which marked the beginning of his career as a solo artist.

Juan Villafuerte

During this time, Villafuerte held many exhibits with the likes of Zuniga, Carreño and Yaulema all across Spain and Ecuador.

Lagidium ahuacaense

Lagidium ahuacaense is known only from Cerro El Ahuaca, a steep granite inselberg near Cariamanga in Loja Province, southern Ecuador, where it occurs at an altitude of 1950 to 2480 m (6400 to 8140 ft), but only near rocky surfaces.

Largenose catshark

The largenose catshark, Apristurus nasutus, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found on the upper continental slopes in the eastern Pacific from the Gulf of Panama, Ecuador and central Chile, between latitudes 9° N and 28° S.

Luis Molinari

Luis Molinari (b. Guayaquil, Ecuador 1929 - d. Quito, Ecuador 1994) (Luis Molinari-Flores) was a member of VAN (Vanguardia Artística Nacional), a group of informal constructivist artists founded by Enrique Tábara and Aníbal Villacís.

Machalilla culture

The Machalilla were a prehistoric people in Ecuador, in southern Manabí and the Santa Elena Peninsula.

Mercedes Soler

Soler has interviewed various high-profile figures during her two decade career including Alberto Fujimori of Peru, Miguel de la Madrid of Mexico, Carlos Menem of Argentina, Violeta Chamorro and Arnoldo Alemán of Nicaragua, Abdalá Bucaram and Gustavo Noboa of Ecuador, and Ernesto Samper of Colombia.

Odontoglossum

, 1886 : Harry's Odontoglossum (Ecuador to Peru) (after Harry Veitch)

Osornophryne

Osornophryne (Plump Toads) is a genus of true toads endemic to Colombia and Ecuador at Cordillera Central region.

Pedro Moncayo

Pedro Moncayo y Esparza (29 June 1807 in Ibarra, Ecuador — February 1888 in Valparaíso, Chile) was an Ecuadorian journalist and politician.

Pelliciera

Pelliciera rhizophorae, known as the tea mangrove, is a less-common species of mangroves found along the Pacific coast from the Gulf of Nicoya in Costa Rica to the Esmeraldas River in Ecuador as well as within stands located in Nicaragua, Panama, and Colombia.

Petter Villegas

Villegas left MLS afterwards, going back to his native Ecuador to play for Aucas, Barcelona SC, Manta and Deportivo Cuenca.

Pink dolphin

The Amazon river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) that live in the river systems of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela.

Pinta Island

Pinta Island, also known as Abingdon Island, after the Earl of Abingdon, is an island located in the Galapagos Islands group, Ecuador.

Pomasqui

Pomasqui is a village in Quito Canton, Ecuador.

Pontus Wernbloom

On 7 January 2007, he was picked for the Swedish national team's January Tour in South America, and he made his debut on 18 January against Ecuador.

Pouteria caimito

It also grows around Tingo Maria and Iquitos, Peru and it will commonly be found in the Province of Guayas in Ecuador, where it's sold in the markets.

Pukara

Pukara (Aymara and Quechua for "fortress", hispanicized spellings pucara, pucará) is a ruin of the fortifications made by the natives of the central Andean cultures (that is to say: from Ecuador to the Central Valley of Chile and the Argentine Northwest) and particularly to those of the Inca.

Sex workers' rights

So far, the organization has influenced policy in certain countries and has interacted with the president Rafael Correa of Ecuador and Luis Ignacio Lula de Silva in Brazil.

Solus Christi Brothers

Seminarians are formed through Solus Christi Seminary whose formation program is affiliated with our jurisdiction's major seminary, the International Seminary of Saint Basil, Quito, Ecuador.

Tony Gómez

He played for teams in Uruguay (Club Nacional de Football, Club Atletico River Plate, Montevideo Wanderers, Plaza Colonia), Argentinia (San Lorenzo de Almagro, Club Atlético Independiente, Estudiantes de La Plata), Barcelona Sporting Club in Ecuador and finally Matsunichi in China.

Turquoise-throated Puffleg

Only the type specimen from 1850 has a known locality, it being from the Chillo valley, Guayllabamba plains, Ecuador, at an altitude between 2,100 and 2,300 m asl.

Uchu Jacu

originating from the Cayambe region in the northern part of the Ecuadorian province of Pichincha.

Velasco Ibarra

El Empalme, known officially as Velasco Ibarra, a city in Guayas, Ecuador

Vincente de Valverde

He was born in Oropesa, Spain, about 1495 and most sources claim he died on Puná Island, now part of Ecuador, in 1541, at the hands of the indigenous peoples.

Women in Aztec civilization

By 17th century, Andean women were the majority of the market vendors in colonial cities such as La Paz (Bolivia), Cuzco (Peru), and Quito (Ecuador).