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Ecuador
Ecuador (pronounced /ˈɛkwədɔr/), officially the Republic of Ecuador (Spanish: República del Ecuador, pronounced [reˈpuβlika ðel ekwaˈðor]), literally, "Republic of the equator") is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south,...
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Amazon River
The (Portuguese: Rio Amazonas; Spanish: Río Amazonas; pronounced /ˈæməzɒn/ (US); /ˈæməzən/ (UK)) of South America is the largest river in the world by volume, with a total river flow greater than the next eight largest rivers combined. The Amazon,...
Morona
The Morona is a tributary to the Amazon River, and flows parallel to the Pastaza River and immediately to the west of it, and is the last stream of any importance on the northern side of the Amazon before reaching the Pongo de Manseriche.
It is...
Napo River
The Napo is a tributary to the Amazon River that rises in Ecuador on the flanks of the volcanoes of Antisana, Sincholagua and Cotopaxi.
Before it reaches the plains it receives a great number of small streams from impenetrable, saturated and much...
Pastaza River
The Pastaza (the ancient river Sumatara) is a large tributary to the Amazon River.
It has its headwaters in the province of Tungurahua, where the Tambo River joins the Latacunga River, near the foot of the Volcano Tungurahua, flowing south-east...
Quito
San Francisco de Quito, most often called Quito, is the capital city of Ecuador in northwestern South America. It is located in north-central Ecuador in the Guayllabamba river basin, on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the...
Area:
- 324 km² (125 mi² )
Guayaquil
Guayaquil (Spanish pronunciation: [waʝaˈkil]), officially Santiago de Guayaquil, is the largest and the most populous city in Ecuador, as well as that nation's main port. The city is the capital of the Ecuadorian province of Guayas and the seat of...
Area:
- 1,214.44542 km² (468.9 mi² )
Guayas Province
Guayas is a coastal province in Ecuador. It is bordered to the west by Manabí, Santa Elena, and the Pacific Ocean (as the Gulf of Guayaquil); to the east by Los Ríos, Bolívar, Chimborazo, Cañar, and Azuay; to the north by Los Ríos and Bolívar; and...
Area:
- 16,740 km² (6463.4 mi² )
Tungurahua
Tungurahua, (pronounced /tʊŋɡʊˈrɑːwə/), (Quichua tunguri (throat), rahua (fire): "Throat of Fire") is an active stratovolcano located in the Cordillera Central of Ecuador. The volcano gives its name to the province of Tungurahua. Volcanic activity...
Chimborazo
The inactive stratovolcano Chimborazo (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃimboˈɾaso]) is Ecuador's highest summit. Its last eruption is thought to have occurred some time in the first millennium AD. Its summit is generally regarded as the spot on the surface...
Cotopaxi
Cotopaxi is a stratovolcano in the Andes Mountains, located about 45 kilometres (1 km = 0.621 statute miles) (50 mi (? 28 mi)) south of Quito, Ecuador, South America. It is the second highest summit in the country, reaching a height of 5,897 m (19...
Pichincha
Pichincha is an active stratovolcano in the country of Ecuador, whose capital Quito wraps around its eastern slopes. The mountain's two highest peaks are the Guagua (15,696 feet/4,784 m), which means "child" in Quechua and the Rucu (15,413 feet/4...
Içá
The Içá or Putumayo River is one of the tributaries of the Amazon River, west of and parallel to the Yapura. It forms part of Colombia's border with Ecuador, as well as most of the frontier with Peru. Known as the Putumayo in the former three...
Azuay Province
Azuay is a province of Ecuador, created 25 June 1824. It encompasses an area of 7.700 km². Its capital is Cuenca. It is located in the south center of Ecuador in the highlands. Its mountains reach the 4500m above sea level in the national park of El...
Area:
- 7,700 km² (2973 mi² )
Cuenca
Cuenca (full name Santa Ana de los cuatro ríos de Cuenca) is the third largest city in Ecuador by population, which totals 467,000. It is the capital of the Azuay Province. It is located in the highlands of Ecuador at about 2500m (8200 ft) above sea...
Area:
- 67.71 km² (26.14 mi² )
Illiniza
Illiniza is a stratovolcano in Ecuador, located about 55 km (34 mi) southwest of Quito. Illiniza, a potentially active volcano, consists of two snow covered peaks: Illiniza Sur (5,248 m) and Illiniza Norte (5,126 m). Most guidebooks (for example,...
El Oro Province
El Oro province (Spanish: Provincia de El Oro; Oro (es:oro) = Gold) is the southernmost of Ecuador's coastal provinces. It has been named that way because of its historically important gold production. It is one of the worlds major banana exporters....
Area:
- 7,700 km² (2973 mi² )
José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport
José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional José Joaquín de Olmedo) (IATA: GYE, ICAO: SEGU) is an airport serving Guayaquil, a city in the province of Guayas in Ecuador. The airport was named after José Joaquín de...
Bolívar Province
Bolívar is a province in Ecuador. The capital is Guaranda. Much of the province has a cool, 'sierra' climate, but the part in the lower foothills has a warm, tropical climate.
The province is divided into 7 cantons. The following table lists each...
Cañar Province
Cañar is a province in Ecuador. The capital is Azogues. At the time of census 2005 the province had a population of 221,045.
The province is divided into 7 cantons. The following table lists each with its population as of the 2001 census, its area...
Area:
- 3,908 km² (1509 mi² )
Carchi Province
Carchi is a province in Ecuador. The capital is Tulcán.
The provincial economy is based on industrial, and agriculture productions. Carchi produces food, drinks, tobacco, and diary products. The agriculture sector produces potatoes, maize, etc.
The...
Area:
- 3,790 km² (1463 mi² )
Chimborazo Province
Chimborazo is a province in Ecuador, located in the central Ecuadorian Andes, containing a section of Sangay National Park. The capital is Riobamba. The province contains Chimborazo (6,267 m), Ecuador's highest mountain.
The province is divided into...
Area:
- 5,637 km² (2176 mi² )
Cotopaxi Province
Cotopaxi is one of the provinces of Ecuador. The capital is Latacunga. The province contains the Cotopaxi Volcano, an intermittent volcano with a height of 19,388 feet.
The province is divided into 7 cantons. The following table lists each with its...
Area:
- 5,287 km² (2041 mi² )
Esmeraldas Province
Esmeraldas is a province in northwestern Ecuador. The capital is Esmeraldas.
The province is home to the Afro-Ecuadorian culture.
The province is divided into 8 cantons. The following table lists each with its population as of the 2001 census, its...
Galápagos Province
Galápagos is a province of Ecuador in the country's Insular region, located approximately 600 miles off the western coast of the mainland. The capital is Puerto Baquerizo Moreno.
The province administers the Galápagos Islands, a group of tiny...
Area:
- 45,000 km² (17375 mi² )
Imbabura Province
Imbabura is a province in Ecuador. The capital is Ibarra. The people speak Spanish and Imbabura Quechua language.
Imbabura Volcano is located in the province. It is 4,609 m high and best reached from the town La Esperanza. It can be climbed in a...
Area:
- 4,896 km² (1890 mi² )
Loja Province
Loja Province is one of 24 provinces in Ecuador and shares its southern border on the west by El Oro Province, on the north by El Azuay, and on the east by Zamora-Chinchipe. Founded on its present site in 1548 by Captain Alonso de Mercadillo ...
Los Ríos Province
Los Ríos is a province in Ecuador. The capital is Babahoyo. The province was founded on September 30, 1948 under legistative decree. Its capital Babahoyo was founded October, 6, 1860. The province is poor, low-lying, often subject to flooding and...
Area:
- 7,100 km² (2741 mi² )
Manabí Province
Manabí is a province in Ecuador. Its capital is Portoviejo. The province is named after the Manabí people.
Manabí's economy is based heavily on natural resources such as cacao, bananas, cotton, etc. It's industrial sector is based on Tuna canning,...
Area:
- 18,506 km² (7145.2 mi² )
Morona-Santiago Province
Morona-Santiago is a province in Ecuador. The province was established in February 24, 1954. The capital is Macas.
The provincial economy is industrially unexploited to its potential due to low means of transportation. Its economy relies largely on...
Area:
- 23,875 km² (9218.2 mi² )
Napo Province
Napo is a province in Ecuador. Its capital is Tena. The province contains the Napo River. The province is low developed without much industrial presence. The thick rainforest is home to many natives that remain isolated by preference, descendents of...
Area:
- 13,342 km² (5151.4 mi² )
Orellana Province
Orellana is an inland province of Ecuador. The capital is Puerto Francisco de Orellana (also known as Coca).
The name of the province derives from the explorer Francisco de Orellana who it is told to have sailed from somewhere near the town to the...
Pastaza Province
Pastaza is a province in the Oriente of Ecuador located in the eastern jungle. The capital is Puyo, founded on May 12, 1899 and which boasts 25,800 inhabitants. The city is now accessible by paved roads, a recent development; the main road from...
Pichincha Province
Pichincha is a province of Ecuador located in the northern sierra region; its capital and largest city is Quito. It is bordered by Imbabura & Esmeraldas to the north, Cotopaxi & Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas to the south, Napo & Sucumbíos to the...
Area:
- 170,304 km² (65754.7 mi² )
Sucumbíos Province
Sucumbíos is a province in northeast Ecuador. The capital and largest city is Nueva Loja (also known as Lago Agrio). It is the fifth largest province in the country, with an area of 18,612 km². As of 1998, it has a population of 144,774 inhabitants....
Area:
- 17,947 km² (6929.4 mi² )
Tungurahua Province
Tungurahua (Spanish: Provincia del Tungurahua, literally Province of the Tungurahua) is one of the twenty-four provinces of Ecuador. Its capital is Ambato. The province takes its name from the Tungurahua volcano, which is located within the...
Area:
- 2,896 km² (1118 mi² )
Zamora-Chinchipe Province
Zamora-Chinchipe is a Province of the Republic of Ecuador, located at southeastern end of the Amazon Basin, which shares borders with the Ecuadorian provinces of Azuay and Morona-Santiago to the north, Loja and Azuay to the west, and with Peru to...
Cayambe
Cayambe (or Volcán Cayambe) is the name of a volcano located in the Cordillera Oriental, a branch of the Ecuadorian Andes. It is located in Pichincha province some 70 km (43 mi) northeast of Quito. It is the third highest mountain in Ecuador....
San Juan de Ambato
Ambato (full form, San Juan de Ambato) is a city in located in the central Andean valley of Ecuador. Lying on the banks of the Ambato River, the city also stands beneath several tall mountains. It is the capital of the province of Tungurahua, at an...
Loja
Loja is the capital of Ecuador's Loja Province. It is located in the Cuxibamba valley in the south of the country, sharing borders with the provinces of Zamora-Chinchipe and El Oro, and with Peru in the south. Loja holds a rich tradition in the arts...
Area:
- 1,883 km² (727 mi² )
El Altar
El Altar is an extinct volcano on the western side of Sangay National Park in Ecuador, 170 km south of Quito. Spaniards named it as such as it resembled a huge cathedral to them. The Inca called it Capac-Urcu, which means "King Mountain" in Quechua....
Corazón
Corazón (Spanish: "heart") is an inactive eroded stratovolcano of Ecuador, situated about 30 km southwest of Quito in the western slopes of the Andes.
Rumiñahui
Rumiñahui (Spanish pronunciation: [rumiˈɲawi] "roo-mee-NYAH-wee", from Quechua rumi=rock, ñawi=eye/face) is a dormant, heavily-eroded stratovolcano 4721 m above sea level. Situated in the Andes mountains 40 km south of Quito, Ecuador, it is...
La Esperanza
La Esperanza (the name is Spanish for "the hope") is a town in northern Ecuador, in the Imbabura Province. It lies at the northern foot of the Mount Imbabura volcano. La Esperanza is the best base-town for climbing Imbabura volcano. La Esperanza has...
Riobamba
Riobamba (full name San Pedro de Riobamba) is the capital of the Chimborazo Province in central Ecuador, which is located at the Chambo River Valley of the Andes. It is 200 km (125 miles) south of Ecuador's capital Quito and located at 9,000 feet ...
Area:
- 2,900,000 km² (1119696 mi² )
Quito
Quito, officially the Metropolitan District of Quito (Spanish: Distrito Metropolitano de Quito), is a canton in the province of Pichincha, Ecuador.
The canton is governed by the same mayor and city council that govern the city of Quito.
According to...
Area:
- 4,204 km² (1623 mi² )
Guayas River
The Guayas River is a river in western Ecuador. It gives name to the Guayas Province, and it is the most important river in South America that does not flow into the Atlantic Ocean or any of its seas. Its total length, including the Daule River, is...
Playas
Playas (officially known as General Villamil Playas) is a coastal city located in the province of Guayas, Ecuador. It is the seat of the canton of Playas, created in 1989. As of the census of 2001, there are 24,070 people residing within city limits...
Santa Elena
Santa Elena is a town in southwestern Ecuador, and is the capital of both the province and the canton of the same name.
At the 2001 census there were 111,671 people living within the canton limits.
Salinas
Salinas is a coastal city located in the Province of Santa Elena, Ecuador. It is the seat of the canton that bears its name. The westernmost city on mainland Ecuador, Salinas is an important tourist center. It is the site of the ISA World Junior...
Area:
- 27 km² (10 mi² )
Sangay
Sangay is a constantly active stratovolcano in southeastern Ecuador. It is the southernmost and most active volcano in the country, and is known for its explosive venting of thick ash clouds, which has built a dome since 1976.
Daule River
The Daule River is a river in Ecuador, in Guayas Province. At Guayaquil, it joins the Babahoyo River; from that point the confluence becomes the Guayas River.
Coronel Marcelino Maridueña
Coronel Marcelino Maridueña is a town located in eastern Guayas, Ecuador. It is the seat of Coronel Marcelino Maridueña Canton.
At the 2001 census there were 10,697 people living within canton limits. The most important crop is sugar cane, but...
Fernandina Island
Fernandina Island (formerly known in English as Narbrough Island, after John Narbrough) is the third largest, and youngest, island of the Galápagos Islands. Like the others, the island was formed by the Galápagos hotspot. The island is an active...
Puerto Ayora
Puerto Ayora is a town in central Galápagos, Ecuador. Located on the southern shore of Santa Cruz Island, it is the seat of Santa Cruz Canton. The town is named in honor of Isidro Ayora, an Ecuadorian president. The town is sometimes mistakenly...
El Coca
Puerto Francisco de Orellana, also known as Coca, is the capital of province of Orellana in eastern Ecuador. The city is located in the Amazon Rainforest at the confluence of the Coca River and the Napo River. It has a population of 18,298...
Coca River
The Coca River is a river in eastern Ecuador. It is a tributary of the Napo River. The two rivers join in Puerto Francisco de Orellana.
Antisana
Antisana is a stratovolcano of the northern Andes, in Ecuador. It is the fourth highest volcano in Ecuador, at 18,871 ft. (5,752m), and is located 50 km SE of the capital city of Quito. Antisana presents one of the most challenging technical climbs...
Nueva Loja
Nueva Loja, also known as Lago Agrio, is the capital of the canton of Lago Agrio and the province of Sucumbíos in Ecuador. It was founded in the 1960s as a base camp of Texaco. The official population estimate as of 1995 was 19,262 and as of 2009...
Reventador
Reventador is an active stratovolcano which lies in the eastern Andes of Ecuador. It lies in a remote area of the national park of the same name. Since 1541 it has erupted over 25 times, although its isolated location means that many of its...
Babahoyo River
The Babahoyo River is a river in western Ecuador, fed by tributaries rising in the Andes Mountains. It takes its name from the town of Babahoyo in Los Ríos. At Durán, it joins the Daule River to form the Guayas River, which continues to the Pacific...
