Amazonian Country Located at he heart of the Equatorial Line
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Regions
Coast
To the west of the Andes Mountains, Ecuador has
an area crossed by a small mountain range and
the flat plains. This extension shares three main
types of ecosystems.
To the north, lush, humid rainforest due to the
warm and humid El Niño Current (Panama
Current) that flows south along the northern part
of the coast. To the center and southwest of the
tropical savannas and to the west and south of
the peninsula the dry forest, this is due to the cold
and dry Humboldt current that flows northward
along the southern coast of Ecuador.
Sierra
In Ecuador, the Cordillera de los Andes or
Cordillera is dominated by a series of towering
volcanoes and highland valleys, reaching almost
18,000 feet (6000 meters). Cotopaxi is the second
highest volcano in the world and Chimborazo is
the highest mountain in Ecuador.
People from all over the world who have never
been to Ecuador often think that this country is a
land of smoky jungles along the Equator. Quito,
the capital of Ecuador, is located at an elevation of
9,350 feet and holds the record as the highest
capital city in the world.
The Amazon Rainforest compiles National Parks
and indigenous areas, one of these parks is the
Yasuní National Park and offers one of the
ecosystems with the greatest biodiversity in the
world. Under the surface of this Park are reserves
of crude oil and natural gas.
Here you will find the best fauna, home to a record
number of species such as birds, frogs, fish,
carnivores such as jaguars and insects among
other species.
The Amazon is home to many indigenous tribes,
who have lived here for centuries. Unfortunately,
many groups have been displaced from their
territories due to oil expansion and the
deforestation of the jungle.
Insularor or Galápagos Islands
The Galapagos archipelago is located 1,000 km off
the coast of Ecuador and is home to a large
number of endemic species. Isolated from the
continent for millions of years, they were
discovered by the Spanish Fray Tómas de
Berlanga on March 10, 1535.
It is here that animals do not have an instinctive
fear of humans that Charles Darwin arrived on
September 15, 1835 and began his observations
and then developed his theories of evolution.