Ecuador

Ecuador is a country on the Equator in northwestern . Several places in the country have been declared UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the and the cities of and , which lie in the that run from north to south through the country.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Quito and Guayaquil.

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, the capital of Ecuador, was founded in 1534 on the ruins of an ancient Inca city. 's Old City is the largest in the Americas and was one of the first UNESCO World Heritage Sites, recognized as the largest and most intact colonial city center remaining in the Americas.

is the largest city in Ecuador. This article also covers Durán, which is a UNESCO Creative City on the other side of the river.

is an inactive volcano and the highest mountain in Ecuador at just about 6,263 m. It is a popular hiking and mountain climbing location.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Andean Highlands and Coastal Lowlands.

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The are a very scenic region in Ecuador. At an elevation of over 2,200 m, they offer a breathtaking natural experience. This part of Ecuador preserves much of its original pre-Columbian heritage, which is seen in the food, language, clothes and costumes of many people.

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The is a region in Ecuador. Here you can find nice beaches, a tropical climate, and a laid back atmosphere. The beaches in are very popular for Ecuadorians on holiday.

The are a small archipelago of islands belonging to Ecuador in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The islands are quite remote and isolated, lying some 1000 km west of the South American continent, and the archipelago is bisected by the equator.

The Oriente is a region of eastern Ecuador, comprising the eastern slopes of the Ecuadorian and the lowland areas of rainforest in the basin.

Ecuador

Latitude of center
-1.45° or 1° 27′ south
Longitude of center
-78.53° or 78° 31′ 48″ west
Population
13,800,000
Area
283,560 km² (109,483 miles²)
Elevation
3,074 metres (10,085 feet)
Named after
equator
Capital
Currency
Dollar (USD)
Phone code
.ec
Internet domain
593
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424298227
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
3658394
Wiki­data ID
Q736
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Ecuador” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: Еквадор
  • Achinese: Èkuador
  • Adyghe: Экуадор
  • Afrikaans: Ecuador
  • Afrikaans: Republiek van die ewenaar
  • Afrikaans: Republiek van Ecuador
  • Akan: Ikuwadɔ
  • Albanian: Ekuador
  • Albanian: Ekuadori
  • Albanian: Republika e Ekuadorit
  • Amharic: ኢኳዶር
  • Amharic: ኤኳዶር
  • Amis: Ecuador
  • Angika: इक्वेडोर
  • Arabic: أكوادور
  • Arabic: أكوادوري
  • Arabic: إكوادور
  • Arabic: إکوادور
  • Arabic: اكوادور
  • Arabic: الأكوادور
  • Arabic: الإكوادور
  • Arabic: الاكوادور
  • Aragonese: Ecuador
  • Armenian: Էկվադոր
  • Armenian: Էկվադորի Հանրապետություն
  • Arpitan: Èquator
  • Assamese: ইকুৱেডৰ
  • Asturian: Ecuador
  • Asturian: L’Ecuador
  • Atayal: Ecuador
  • Awadhi: ईक्वाडोर
  • Aymara: Ikwadur
  • Azerbaijani: Ekvador Respublikası
  • Azerbaijani: Ekvador
  • Balinese: Ékuador
  • Bambara: Ekwatɔr
  • Bashkir: Эквадор
  • Basque: Ekuador
  • Basque: Ekuadorko Errepublika
  • Batak Toba: Ekuador
  • Bavarian: Ecuador
  • Belarusian: Рэспу́бліка Эквадо́р
  • Belarusian: Эквадор
  • Bengali: ইকুয়াডর
  • Bengali: ইকুয়েডর প্রজাতন্ত্র
  • Bengali: ইকুয়েডর
  • Bengali: ইকোয়াডর
  • Bengali: রেপুব্লিকা দেল্‌ একুয়াদ়োর্‌
  • Betawi: Èkuador
  • Bhojpuri: इक्वेडोर
  • Bishnupriya: ইকুয়াডর
  • Bislama: Ecuador
  • Bislama: Ekwado
  • Bosnian: Ekvador
  • Bosnian: Republika Ekvador
  • Breton: Ecuador
  • Breton: republik ar c’heheder
  • Bulgarian: Еквадор
  • Bulgarian: Република Еквадор
  • Burmese: အီကွေဒေါ သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ
  • Burmese: အီကွေဒေါ
  • Burmese: အီကွေဒေါနိုင်ငံ
  • Cajun French: Équateur
  • Cajun French: République de l’Équateur
  • Catalan: Equador
  • Catalan: l’Equador
  • Catalan: República de l’Equador
  • Cebuano: ekwador
  • Cebuano: Ekwador
  • Cebuano: Igwador
  • Central Bikol: Ekwador
  • Central Kanuri: Ecouador
  • Central Kanuri: Ecuador
  • Central Kurdish: ئێکوادۆر
  • Chavacano: Ecuador
  • Chechen: Эквадор
  • Cherokee: ᎡᏆᏙᎵ
  • Cheyenne: Ecuador
  • Chimborazo Highland Quichua: Ecuador
  • Chinese: Ecuador
  • Chinese: 厄瓜多
  • Chinese: 厄瓜多共和國
  • Chinese: 厄瓜多尔 / 厄瓜多
  • Chinese: 厄瓜多尔
  • Chinese: 厄瓜多爾
  • Chinese: 厄瓜多爾共和國
  • Chinese: 赤道国
  • Chinese: 赤道國
  • Choctaw: Ekwatol
  • Chuvash: Эквадор
  • Cornish: Ekwador
  • Cornish: Pow Ekwadorel
  • Corsican: Ecuador
  • Corsican: Equatore
  • Corsican: Republica di l’Ecuador
  • Corsican: Republica di l’Equatore
  • Corsican: Ripublica di l’Ecuador
  • Corsican: Ripublica di l’Equatore
  • Crimean Tatar: Ekvador
  • Croatian: Ekvador
  • Croatian: Republika Ekvador
  • Czech: Ekvádor
  • Czech: Ekvádorská republika
  • Dagbani: ECU
  • Danish: Ækvators republik
  • Danish: Ecuador
  • Danish: Republikken Ecuador
  • Dhivehi: އިކުއެޑޯރު
  • Dimli (individual language): Ekwador
  • Dotyali: इक्वेडर
  • Dutch: Ecuador
  • Dutch: Republiek Ecuador
  • Dzongkha: ཨེ་ཀུ་ཌོ། Ecuador
  • Dzongkha: ཨེ་ཀུ་ཌོ།
  • Dzongkha: ཨེ་ཁྭ་ཌོར
  • Eastern Mari: Эквадор
  • Egyptian Arabic: اكوادور
  • Esperanto: Ekvadoro
  • Esperanto: Respubliko Ekvadoro
  • Estonian: Ecuador
  • Estonian: Ecuadori Vabariik
  • Ewe: Ecuador
  • Ewe: Ekuadɔ nutome
  • Extremaduran: Equadol
  • Faroese: Ekvador
  • Fiji Hindi: Ecuador
  • Finnish: Ecuador
  • Finnish: Ecuadorin tasavalta
  • French: Equateur
  • French: Équateur
  • French: L’Équateur
  • French: la République d’Équateur
  • French: République d’Équateur
  • French: République de l’Équateur
  • Friulian: Ecuador
  • Fulah: Ekuwatoor
  • Fulah: Ekwadoor
  • Gagauz: Ekvador
  • Galician: Ecuador
  • Galician: Estado Ecuatoriano
  • Galician: República do Ecuador
  • Ganda: Ekwado
  • Georgian: ეკვადორი
  • Georgian: ეკვადორის რესპუბლიკა
  • German: Ecuador
  • German: Ekuador
  • German: Republik Ecuador
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: Ecuador
  • Gilaki: اکوادؤر
  • Goan Konkani: Ecuador
  • Goan Konkani: इक्वाडोर
  • Goan Konkani: एक्वादोर
  • Gothic: 𐌴𐌺𐍅𐌰𐌳𐌰𐌿𐍂
  • Greek: Δημοκρατία του Ισημερινού
  • Greek: Εκουαντόρ
  • Greek: Ισημερινός
  • Guarani: Ekuator
  • Guarani: Ekuatóry
  • Guianese Creole French: Lékwatò
  • Gujarati: ઈક્વેડોર
  • Gujarati: એક્વાડોર
  • Haitian: Ekwatè
  • Haitian: Repiblik Ekwatè
  • Hakka Chinese: Ecuador
  • Hausa: Ecuador
  • Hausa: Ekwador
  • Hawaiian: ‘Ekuakola
  • Hawaiian: ʻEkuakola
  • Hebrew: אקואדור
  • Hebrew: אקוואדור
  • Hebrew: אקוודור
  • Hebrew: רפובליקת אקוודור
  • Hindi: इक्वाडोर गणराज्य
  • Hindi: इक्वाडोर
  • Hindi: ईक्वाडोर
  • Hungarian: Ecuador
  • Hungarian: Ecuadori Köztársaság
  • Hungarian: Ekvádor
  • Icelandic: Ekvador
  • Ido: Equador
  • Igbo: Ecuador
  • Iloko: Ecuador
  • Inari Sami: Ecuador täsiväldi
  • Inari Sami: Ecuador
  • Indonesian: Ekuador
  • Indonesian: Republik Ekuador
  • Interlingua: Ecuador
  • Interlingue: Ecuador
  • Inuktitut: ᐃᑯᐊᑑᕐ
  • Irish: Eacuadór
  • Italian: Ecuador
  • Italian: Equatore
  • Italian: Repubblica dell’Ecuador
  • Italian: Repubblica dell’Equatore
  • Jamaican Creole English: Ekuaduor
  • Japanese: エクアドル
  • Japanese: エクアドル共和国
  • Javanese: Ékuadhor
  • Javanese: Ékuador
  • Javanese: Républik Ékuador
  • Kabiyè: Ekuwatɛrɩ
  • Kabuverdianu: Ekuador
  • Kabyle: Ikwadur
  • Kalaallisut: Ecuador
  • Kalmyk: Эквадормудин Орн
  • Kannada: ಈಕ್ವೆಡಾರ್
  • Kannada: ಎಕ್ವಡಾರ್
  • Kara-Kalpak: Ekvador
  • Karachay-Balkar: Эквадор
  • Kashmiri: اِکواڑور
  • Kashmiri: ایکواڈور
  • Kashubian: Ekwador
  • Kazakh: Эквадор Республикасы
  • Kazakh: Эквадор
  • Khmer: អេក្វាឌ័រ
  • Khmer: អេក្វាទ័រ
  • Kikuyu: Ecuador
  • Kikuyu: Ekwado
  • Kinyarwanda: Ekwadoro
  • Kirghiz: Эквадор Республикасы
  • Kirghiz: Эквадор
  • Korean: 에꽈도르
  • Korean: 에콰도르 공화국
  • Korean: 에콰도르
  • Kotava: Ekuadora
  • Kurdish: Ekuador
  • Kurdish: Ekwador
  • Kurdish: Komara Ekuadorê
  • Ladin: Ecuador
  • Ladino: Ekvador
  • Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດເອກວາດໍ
  • Lao: ປະເທດເອກວາດໍ
  • Lao: ເອກວາດໍ
  • Latgalian: Ekvadors
  • Latin: Aequatoria
  • Latin: Res Publica Aequatoriae
  • Latvian: Ekvadora
  • Latvian: Ekvadoras Republika
  • Lezghian: Эквадор
  • Ligurian: Ecuadòr
  • Limburgan: Ecuador
  • Lingala: Ekwatɛ́lɛ
  • Lingala: Republíki ya Ekwatéli
  • Lingua Franca Nova: Ecuador
  • Literary Chinese: 厄瓜多
  • Lithuanian: Ekvadoras
  • Lithuanian: Ekvadoro Respublika
  • Livvi: Ekvador
  • Lojban: ekuador
  • Lombard: Ecuador
  • Low German: Ecuador
  • Low German: Republiek Ecuador
  • Lower Sorbian: Ekuador
  • Luba-Katanga: Ekwatele
  • Lule Sami: Ecuadåvrrå
  • Luxembourgish: D’Republik Ecuador
  • Luxembourgish: Ecuador
  • Luxembourgish: Republik Ecuador
  • Macedo-Romanian: Ecuador
  • Macedonian: Еквадор
  • Macedonian: Република Еквадор
  • Madurese: Ekuador
  • Malagasy: Ekoadôra
  • Malagasy: Ekoatera
  • Malagasy: I Ekoadôra
  • Malay: Ecuador
  • Malay: Republik Ecuador
  • Malayalam: ഇക്വഡോർ
  • Maltese: Ekwador
  • Maltese: l-Ekwador
  • Maltese: Repubblika tal-Ekwador
  • Manipuri: ꯏꯀ꯭ꯋꯦꯗꯣꯔ
  • Manx: Ecuador
  • Maori: Ekuatoa
  • Maori: Ko Ekuatoa
  • Maori: Te Whenua Tū Wehe o Ekuatoa
  • Marathi: इक्वाडोर
  • Marathi: इक्वेडोर
  • Mazanderani: ئەکوادور
  • Mazanderani: اکفادور
  • Mazanderani: اکوادر
  • Mazanderani: اکوادور
  • Mazanderani: ایکوادور
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: الاكوادور
  • Min Dong Chinese: Ecuador
  • Min Nan Chinese: Chhiah-tō Kiōng-hô-kok
  • Minangkabau: Ekuador
  • Mingrelian: ეკვადორი
  • Mirandese: Eiquador
  • Moksha: Эквадор
  • Mongolian: Эквадор
  • Mongolian: Эквадорын Бүгд Найрамдах Улс
  • Moroccan Arabic: لإكوادور
  • Moroccan Arabic: لإكواضور
  • Moroccan Arabic: لإكواطور
  • Nauru: Ekwador
  • Nepali: इक्वेडर
  • Nepali: इक्वेडोर
  • Nepali: गणतन्त्र इक्वेडर
  • Newari: इक्वेडोर गणतन्त्र
  • Newari: इक्वेडोर
  • North Ndebele: Ecuador
  • Northern Frisian: Ekwadoor
  • Northern Luri: اکوادور
  • Northern Sami: Ecuador dásseváldi
  • Northern Sami: Ecuador
  • Northern Sami: Ecuadora dásseváldi
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Ecuador
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Republikken Ecuador
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Ecuador
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Ekvator
  • Norwegian: Ecuador
  • Novial: Equador
  • Occitan (post 1500): Eqüator
  • Occitan (post 1500): L’Eqüator
  • Occitan (post 1500): Republica d’Eqüator
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): Cynewise Emnihtlondes
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): Emnihtlond
  • Oriya: ଇକ୍ୱାଡୋର
  • Oriya: ଇକ୍ୱାଡୋର୍
  • Oriya: ଇକ୍ୱେଡର
  • Oriya: ଇକ୍ୱେଡୋର
  • Oriya: ଏକ୍ଵାଡୋର
  • Oromo: Iqqu’aador
  • Ossetian: Эквадор
  • Pa'o Karen: အီကွေဒေါခမ်းထီ
  • Pali: एक्वाडोर
  • Pampanga: Ecuador
  • Pampanga: Ekuador
  • Pangasinan: Equador
  • Panjabi: ਇਕਵੇਡੋਰ
  • Panjabi: ਏਕੁਆਡੋਰ
  • Panjabi: ਏਕੁਆਦੋਰ
  • Papiamento: Ecuador
  • Persian: اکوادور
  • Picard: Équateur (poéyis)
  • Picard: Équateur
  • Piemontese: Ecuador
  • Piemontese: L‘ Ecuador
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: Ekwador
  • Polish: Ekwador
  • Polish: Republika Ekwadoru
  • Portuguese: Equador
  • Portuguese: República do Equador
  • Pushto: اکوادور
  • Pushto: اېکوادور
  • Quechua: Ecuador
  • Quechua: Ikuathur
  • Quechua: Ikwathur Ripuwlika
  • Quechua: Ikwathur
  • Quechua: Ikwayur Ripuwlika
  • Quechua: Ikwayur Runap Imayka
  • Quechua: Ikwayur
  • Romanian: Ecuador
  • Romanian: Republica Ecuador
  • Romansh: Ecuador
  • Rundi: Ekwateri
  • Russia Buriat: Эквадор
  • Russian: Республика Эквадор
  • Russian: Эквадор
  • Russian: Экуадор
  • Rusyn: Еквадор
  • Sakizaya: Ecuador
  • Samoan: Ekuatoa
  • Samogitian: Ekvaduors
  • Sango: Ekuatëre
  • Sanskrit: एक्वाडोर
  • Santali: ᱤᱠᱩᱣᱟᱰᱚᱨ
  • Sardinian: Ecuadòr
  • Sardinian: Repùblica de s’Ecuadòr
  • Sardinian: Repùbrica de s’Ecuadòr
  • Saterfriesisch: Ecuador
  • Scots: Ecuador
  • Scots: Republic o Ecuador
  • Scots: Republic o the Equator
  • Scottish Gaelic: Eacuador
  • Serbian: Ekvador
  • Serbian: Еквадор
  • Serbian: Република Еквадор
  • Serbo-Croatian: Ekvador
  • Serbo-Croatian: Republika Ekvador
  • Shan: မိူင်းဢေႇၵႂႃႇတေႃႇ
  • Shona: Ecuador
  • Sicilian: Ecuador
  • Sicilian: L’Equador
  • Silesian: Ekwadůr
  • Sindhi: ايڪواڊور
  • Sinhala: ඉක්වදෝරය
  • Skolt Sami: Ecuadoor tääʹssväʹldd
  • Skolt Sami: Ecuador
  • Slovak: Ekvádor
  • Slovak: Ekvádorská republika
  • Slovenian: Ekvador
  • Slovenian: Repúblika Ekvadór
  • Somali: Ikuwadoor
  • Somali: Ikwadoor
  • South Azerbaijani: اکوادور
  • Southern Sotho: Ecuador
  • Spanish: Ecuador
  • Spanish: el Ecuador
  • Spanish: Estado Ecuatoriano
  • Spanish: República del Ecuador
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⵉⴽⵡⴰⴷⵓⵔ
  • Sundanese: Ékuador
  • Swahili: Ecuador
  • Swahili: Ekuador
  • Swahili: Jamhuri ya Ekuador
  • Swedish: Ecuador
  • Swedish: Republiken Ecuador
  • Swiss German: Ecuador
  • Tagalog: Ang Republika ng Ecuador
  • Tagalog: Ecuador
  • Tagalog: Republika ng Ecuador
  • Tahitian: Ecuador
  • Tajik: Эквадор
  • Tajik: Экуадор
  • Talysh: Ekvador
  • Tamil: ஈக்வடார்
  • Tamil: எக்குவடோர்
  • Tamil: எக்வடோர் குடியரசு
  • Tamil: ரெபூப்லிகா டெல் எக்வடோர்
  • Taroko: Ecuador
  • Tatar: Эквадор Җөмһүрияте
  • Tatar: Эквадор
  • Telugu: ఈక్వడార్
  • Telugu: రిపబ్లికా డెల్ ఈక్వెడార్
  • Telugu: రిపబ్లిక్ ఆఫ్ ఈక్వెడార్
  • Tetum: Ekuadór
  • Thai: ประเทศเอกวาดอร์
  • Thai: สาธารณรัฐเอกวาดอร์
  • Thai: เอกวาดอร์
  • Tibetan: ཨི་ཁྭ་ཌོར།
  • Tibetan: ཨེ་ཁོའོ་ཌོར།
  • Tigrinya: ሪፓብሊክ ኤኳዶር
  • Tigrinya: ኢኳዶር
  • Tigrinya: ኤኳዶር
  • Tok Pisin: Ekuwado
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): ʻEkuetoa
  • Tosk Albanian: Ecuador
  • Tumbuka: Ecuador
  • Tunisian Arabic: الإكوادور
  • Turkish: Ekvador Cumhuriyeti
  • Turkish: Ekvador
  • Turkmen: Ekwador
  • Udmurt: Эквадор
  • Uighur: ئېكۋاتور
  • Uighur: ئېكۋادور
  • Uighur: جمہوریہ ایکواڈور
  • Ukrainian: Еквадор
  • Ukrainian: Республіка Еквадор
  • Upper Sorbian: Ekwador
  • Urdu: ایکواڈور
  • Urdu: جمہوریہ ایکواڈور
  • Uzbek: Ekvador Respublikasi
  • Uzbek: Ekvador
  • Venetian: Ecuador
  • Venetian: Ècuador
  • Veps: Ekvador
  • Vietnamese: Cộng hòa Ecuador
  • Vietnamese: Ê-cu-a-đo
  • Vietnamese: Ê-qu-a-đo (Ecuador)
  • Vietnamese: Ecuador
  • Vlaams: Ecuador
  • Vlax Romani: Ekuador
  • Volapük: Lekvadorän
  • Võro: Ecuador
  • Walloon: Ecwateur
  • Waray (Philippines): Ecuador
  • Waray (Philippines): Republika han Ecuador
  • Wayuu: Ekuwatoorü
  • Welsh: Ecuador
  • Welsh: Ecwador
  • Welsh: Gweriniaeth Ecwador
  • Western Armenian: Էքուատոր
  • Western Frisian: Ecuador
  • Western Frisian: Ekwador
  • Western Mari: Эквадор
  • Western Panjabi: ایکواڈور
  • Western Panjabi: ایکویڈار
  • Wolof: Ekwaatër
  • Wolof: Ekwadoor
  • Wu Chinese: 厄瓜多尔
  • Yakut: Экуадор Республиката
  • Yakut: Экуадор
  • Yiddish: עקוואדאר
  • Yiddish: עקוואַדאר
  • Yoruba: Ekuádò
  • Yoruba: Ẹ̀kùàdọ̀r
  • Yoruba: Orile-ede Olominira ile Ekuado
  • Yue Chinese: 厄瓜多爾
  • Zeeuws: Ecuador
  • Zhuang: Ngwzgvahdohwj
  • Zulu: i-Ecuador
  • ec
  • EC
  • ecu
  • ECU
  • Ecuador
  • Ekuador
  • Ekvaduors
  • ma Ekato
  • República del Ecuador
  • Tlacatlahtohcayotl Ecuador
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