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24 unusual facts about Ecuador


Alejandro Serrano

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

Ambato

Ambato, Ecuador, full name San Juan de Ambato, a city in Ambato Canton

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).

Argenis Moreira

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

Bomarea angustifolia

It is not clear exactly where the specimen was collected, but it may have been near Loja.

Chaunus amabilis

It appears that populations of this toad in the area surrounding Provincia Loja have been severely affected by human activities.

Cinema of Ecuador

Recently the film Qué tan lejos by Cuenca's Tania Hermida was highly acclaimed, receiving the Silver Zenith Award Montreal World Film Festival for the best directorial debut.

Daniel Mina

Daniel Nevil Mina Arisola (born December 9, 1980 in Santa Ana) is an Ecuadorian football midfielder currently playing for Barcelona.

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.

El Cajas

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

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.

Invicta Watch Group

In 2010, The Invicta Care Foundation financially supported the Emmaus Medical Mission to help the poverty stricken community of Mindo, Ecuador.

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.

Los Bancos Canton

Local tradition attributes the "Los Bancos" part of the name to the use of tree trunks as benches at the junction of the through road from Quito to Esmeraldas with the road into the Rio Blanco valley.

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.

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.

Nebulosa fulvipalpis

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

Óscar Bagüí

Óscar Dalmiro Bagüí Angulo (born December 10, 1982 in Esmeraldas) is an Ecuadorian footballer who plays for Emelec in the Ecuadorian Serie A.

Paul L. Montgomery

A series of article he wrote in March 1970 resulted in the release of four visitors from Cuenca, Ecuador who had been charged with setting off a simultaneous detonation of incendiary devices in the Alexander's and Bloomingdale's department stores in New York City.

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).

Tena, Ecuador

Cuevas de Jumandy - four kilometres north of Archidona on the road to Quito is a labyrinth of natural caves and tunnels that extend several kilometres underground.

Archidona - a colonial town, founded in 1560, north of Tena, Archidona still serves as one of the region's main missionary outposts.


A. glutinosa

Aristeguietia glutinosa, the matico, a flowering plant species found only in Ecuador

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.

All Saint's Episcopal Day School

Eighth Graders participate in an international exchange program with a school in Ecuador, and spend 10 days living with host families in Quito.

Antonio Ríos

Ríos got his first call up by interim coach Efraín Flores for friendly matches on September 4 and 7, 2010 against Ecuador and Colombia, respectively.

Astragalus bidentatus

It is found only in Ecuador in two locations in the south above the timberline in the Azuay and Cañar provinces.

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.

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 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.

Chlorocardium

They are present in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and the Guiana Shield (in northeastern Brazil, Venezuela (Amazonas, Bolívar and Delta Amacuro states), Guyana, Surinam and French Guiana).

Corporación Andina de Fomento

The creation of CAF began to take place in 1966 following the historic signing of the Declaration of Bogotá in the presence of its framers, President Carlos Lleras Restrepo of Colombia, President Eduardo Frei Montalva of Chile, President Raúl Leoni of Venezuela, and the personal representatives of the presidents of Ecuador and Peru.

Cristian Mora

Cristian Rafael Mora Medrano (born August 26, 1979 in Vinces, Los Ríos) is an Ecuadorian football goalkeeper who plays for Deportivo Cuenca.

Darío Cabrol

In 2003 Cabrol made his last run in the Argentine first division with Huracán before moving to Ecuador to join Emelec.

Dinoponera longipes

Dinoponera longipes have been collected in eastern Peru in the departments of Loreto, Amazonas, Huánuco, San Martín and Pasco, as well as Ecuador in the province of Pastaza.

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.

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.

Guanay Cormorant

After breeding it spreads south to southern parts of Chile and north to Ecuador, and has also been recorded as far north as Panama and Colombia – probably a result of mass dispersal due to food shortage in El Niño years.

History of FIFA

Under this proposal, Bolivia would no longer be able to play international matches in La Paz (3600 m), Ecuador would be unable to play in Quito (2800 m), and Colombia could no longer play in Bogotá (2640 m).

Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction

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

Jacques Zwobada

In 1929, with René Letourneur, he won an international competition for a gigantic monument to Simón Bolívar in Quito, Ecuador.

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.

José Payares

In Rio at the PanAm Games main event he bested US southpaw Adam Willett 12:8 and Jorge Quiñones from Ecuador but was beaten in the final once again by Acosta.

José Valencia Murillo

José Luis Valencia Murillo (born March 19, 1982 in Quininde, Esmeraldas) is an Ecuadorian footballer.

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.

Lou Dematteis

His work has been exhibited on four continents and in 2007 he received a grant from the Open Society Institute to exhibit his work from the Ecuadoran Amazon in the communities in Ecuador most affected by the contamination left in the region as a result of Texaco's oil extraction practices.

Macrocarpaea

Macrocarpaea dies-viridis "Named for the American punk rock music group Green Day, whose music we listened to, especially while driving to localities throughout Ecuador during out 2006 expedition".

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.

Miss United Continent

The first Miss Continente Americano Pageant held in Guayaquil, Ecuador in 2006.

Pedro Moncayo

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

Perenco

It has exploration and production activities in 16 countries across the globe (the North Sea, Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guatemala, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Brazil, Belize, Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Vietnam).

Petter Villegas

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

Pillaro

Píllaro (pronounced 'PEE-yah-ro') is a city in Ecuador, located in the province of Tungurahua.

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.

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.

Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga

He served as archbishop of Quito and the Primate of Ecuador from 2003 to 2010 when Fausto Trávez Trávez was appointed to replace Archbishop Vela Chiriboga.

Required navigation performance

Since 2009, regulators in Perú, Chile and Ecuador have deployed more than 25 RNP-AR approach procedures, designed in conjunction with LAN Airlines.

Sergio Pezzotta

After the retirement of fellow countryman Horacio Elizondo he became Argentine's top referee and was selected for the 2007 Copa América where he took charge of three games (Brazil vs Mexico, Brazil vs Ecuador; both group stage and the quarterfinal between Mexico and Paraguay).

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.

Simón Trinidad

Palmera was captured in January 2004 in Quito, Ecuador, by local authorities and speedily deported to Colombia, where he faced charges for rebellion, the kidnapping and later assassination of Colombian former minister Consuelo Araújo and various other criminal offenses that he allegedly committed, including the extortion or kidnapping of several of his former banking associates, former childhood friends and relatives.

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.

Uchu Jacu

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

X. roseum

Xenophyllum roseum, a species of flowering plant found only in Ecuador

Xenastrapotherium

aequatorialis (Johnson & Madden, 1997): Based on a piece of right lower jaw, found in the river Burgaya in the province of Cañar, Ecuador, in the Biblián Formation (Middle Miocene, 19 million years ago).