Ecuador is located in northwestern Southamerica on equatorial latitude, its surface is 256.370 sq.km and its population comes up to 13 millions. Ecuador has four geographical regions: the coast (la costa), the andes (la sierra) , the Amazon region (el Oriente) and the Galapagos Islands (Galápagos).

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