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¡Alfaro Vive, Carajo!

One year later, eight group members made an illegal, but non-violent entry into the British Embassy in Quito, demanding the release of a group leader who was then imprisoned by the Ecuadorian government.

Alejandro Serrano

Nicanor Alejandro Serrano Aguilar (born 13 January 1933 in Cuenca) is an Ecuadorian politician and sports leader.

Antonio Neumane

Neumane is known today as the composer of the Ecuadorian National Anthem, which was performed for the first time on August 10, 1870 in the Independence Square of Quito, with Neumane as the orchestra director.

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.

Charles Eloi Demarquet

Among his notable descendants are his own oldest son, Carlos, an Ecuadorian politician who served as Quito's cantonal leader (Jefe Politico) from 1886 to 1892, and the French historian and Academician Jean-Jacques Chevallier.

Cinema of Ecuador

Other major films in the rebirth of Ecuadorian cinema were Ratas, ratones y rateros (1999) and Crónicas (2004) by director Sebastián Cordero.

Ecuadorian Army

A much larger and better equipped Peruvian force, quickly overwhelmed the Ecuadorian forces, driving them back from Zarumilla and invading the Ecuadorian province of El Oro.

Ecuadorian Navy

On the 25th July 1941 during the Ecuadorian–Peruvian War, the gunboat Calderon commanded by Rafael Morán Valverde encountered the Peruvian destroyer Almirante Villar in the Jambeli channel.

Ecuadorian–Peruvian War

As a result of the war, Peru occupied almost the entire Ecuadorian coastal province of El Oro and some towns of the Andean province of Loja, besides driving the Ecuadorians back along the whole line of dispute along the Amazonian border.

Regardless, the much larger and better equipped Peruvian force of 13,000 men quickly overwhelmed the approximately 1,800 Ecuadorian covering forces, driving them back from the Zarumilla and invading the Ecuadorian province of El Oro.

Enchufe.tv

On September 14, 2013 at 10 PM, Enchufe.tv released their first season videos to a broader Ecuadorian public on Ecuavisa, an Ecuadorian television station.

Enchufe.tv is an ecuadorian web series produced by Touché Films, based in Quito, Ecuador, consisting of comedic sketches viewed primarily on its YouTube channels, as well as on Ecuadorian television channel Ecuavisa.

Entre Marx y una Mujer Desnuda

Entre Marx y una Mujer Desnuda (Between Marx and a Nude Woman) is a 1976 novel written by the Ecuadorian poet Jorge Enrique Adoum.

The novel was made into a film in 1996 by the Ecuadorian film maker Camilo Luzuriaga, in Spanish with English and French subtitles.

Fernanda

Fernanda Cornejo (born 1989), Ecuadorian beauty pageant titleholder, crowned Miss International Ecuador 2011

Fidel Martínez

He showed his skills in the 2007 Pan American Games held in Brazil, where the Ecuadorian soccer team won the gold medal, and Fidel was a key player for the team.

Franklin Tenorio

Franklin Bolívar Tenorio Ramón (born June 30, 1969 in Salcedo, Cotopaxi) is an Ecuadorian long-distance and marathon runner.

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.

Gabriel García

Gabriel García Moreno (1821–1876), Ecuadorian statesman who twice served as President of that country

Hollandsche Bank-Unie

HBU's international history ended in 2001 when ABN AMRO sold the Ecuadorian operation it had inherited from the HBU to Banco del Pichincha (est. 1906).

Jinsop

Jinsop Ho Odirling, known as "Jinsop" (Seoul, South Korea, 1959 – Santa Elena, Ecuador, June 24, 2012) was an Ecuadorian singer of Korean and American heritage who sang Spanish ballads, pop, and rock music.

José María Obando

The conflict began when Congress passed a law to suppress small convents and monasteries and re-appropriate the land in Pasto, the law was not intended to punish the Church as the places in question were indeed small and sparingly occupied by mostly Ecuadorian clergy, but the deeply Roman Catholic province went up in arms at the involvement of the government in their religious affairs, even after the Bishop of Popayán had approved of the measure.

Juan Anangonó

Juan Carlos Anangonó (born 1989), Ecuadorian footballer for Argentinos Juniors

Juan Buenaventura de Borja y Armendía

Juan de Borja y Miguel - who at Riobamba, started a family that would later become the prestigious Ecuadorian and Chilean Borja families.

Juan Fernando Velasco

In 2004 he received the “Orden Vicente Rocafuerte” - the highest award granted by the Ecuadorian government to an artist.

Juan Martín Cueva

His paternal grandfather was the politician Carlos Cueva Tamaríz, his uncle the painter Patricio Cueva Jaramillo and his cousin Fernando Cordero Cueva is the current (2011) president of the Ecuadorian Congress.

Julio Jaramillo

Jaramillo recorded with many other noteworthy Latin American artists including Puerto Rican singer, Daniel Santos; fellow Ecuadorian singer, Olimpo Cárdenas; and Colombian singer, Alci Acosta.

Kuding

Ilex guayusa- also known as "guayusa", is an Amazonian tree of the holly genus, native to the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest.

La barra del Rojo

In 2004 in Quito, Ecuador, the barra brava fought the Ecuadorian police during a Copa Libertadores match between El Nacional and Independente in the Atahualpa stadium.

Leonardo Tejada

Leonardo Tejada (Latacunga, 1908 - Quito, 2005) was an Ecuadorian painter whose work was known for its Social Realism and Expressionism.

Liguiqui

Ligüiqui is a neighborhood of San Lorenzo rural parish in Manta, Manabí, Ecuador, with no more than 100 people, located practically in the middle of the forest in the Ruta del Sol 30 km south of Manta, one of the modern cities with the major port along the central Ecuadorian coast in the province of Manabi, economically, the third most important city of Ecuador.

Lilacine Amazon

The Lilacine Amazon is native to the tropical forests of western Ecuador north of the Gulf of Guayaquil, extending to Nariño in extreme south-western Colombia adjacent to the Ecuadorian border, where it intersects with the subspecies A.

Luis H. Salgado

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

Lupe Rumazo

Cobo was born in Quito, the daughter of Ecuadorian historian Alfonso Rumazo González.

Manuel Belisario Moreno

He is the father of the sculptor Alfredo Palacio Moreno (1912-1998) and the grandfather of the former Ecuadorian President Alfredo Palacio González (in office 2005-2007).

Marcelo Fleitas

He currently plays for the Ecuadorian club Emelec and the Ecuadorian national team.

Paco Moncayo

He is a Legion of Merit recipient and has been awarded many Ecuadorian and international decorations for both, his military and political career.

Prostitution in Ecuador

According to a recent government study, the main destination provinces for human trafficking include Pichincha, Guayas, Esmeraldas and Manabi; Ecuadorian women are also trafficked to Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, and Western Europe for commercial sexual exploitation.

Psychological resilience

Investigators from the Ecuadorian Catholic University (Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil) (Guayaquil) and the Spanish University of Zaragoza (Zaragoza), performed a comparative study at the Enrique C. Sotomayor Obstetric and Gynecology Hospital (Guayaquil) assessing resilience differences between pregnant adolescents and adults.

Qué tan lejos

The plot follows an Ecuadorian student, Tristeza(Vallejo) from Quito and a Spanish traveler, Esperanza (Martinez) from Barcelona as they unexpectedly travel together from Quito to Cuenca, because Tristeza wants to stop her summer love from marrying and Esperanza wants to travel when a strike caused by the runaway of the president, makes it impossible to travel by bus.

Raúl Reyes

Reyes was killed during a Colombian military operation in Granada, Putumayo Department, on March 1, 2008, against an encampment situated near Santa Rosa de Sucumbíos, on the Ecuadorian side of the border along the Putumayo River.

Raul Viver

The Ecuadorian reached the quarter-finals at Kitzbuhel in 1984 and Buenos Aires the following year.

Rio Protocol

Despite this, limited skirmishes continued to occur through the months of August and September in the Ecuadorian provinces of El Oro and Loja, as well as in the Amazonian lands.

Rodolfo Pérez Pimentel

Pérez Pimentel won the prize in the literature category for his lifetime work as a biographer; Theo Constante won in the art category; Rodrigo Cabezas won in the science category; Luis Enrique Fierro won in the cultural activities category; and an award was given to the Academia Ecuatoriana de la Lengua (The Ecuadorian Academy of Language) for its history of excellence.

Uzal Girard Ent

After graduating from the Command and General Staff College in 1938 he served as a military attaché at the American Embassy, Lima, Peru from July 1939 until October 1942, acting as the senior neutral military observer on the Peruvian side after their boundary war with Ecuador.

Zarumilla River

The largest towns on its banks are Huaquillas, in the Ecuadorian province of El Oro, and Aguas Verdes in the Tumbes Region of Peru; both towns are connected by an international bridge.


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