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26 unusual facts about Ecuador


Alvin Rentería

Rentería set his personal best (16.66 metres) in the men's triple jump on September 15, 2001 in Ambato.

Ambato

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

Andean Siskin

The nominate subspecies occurs in coastal mountains of northern Aragua in north Venezuela, the Andes of westerm Venezuela, through the Serranía del Perijá and the eastern Andes in Colombia south to Valle, Putumayo, Nariño and Pichincha Province in Ecuador.

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).

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.

Daniel Mina

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

Dannes Coronel

Dannes Arcenio Coronel Campoverde (born May 24, 1973 in Naranjal) is a retired football defender from Ecuador, who made 27 appearances for the Ecuador national team between 1992 and 2000.

Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly

The assembly first convened on November 29, 2007 in Montecristi, and was given six months to write a new constitution, with a possible two-month extension.

El Cajas

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

Emilio Cruz

In 1994, Cruz's work was shown as part of the American contingent at the IV Bienal Internacional de Pintura en Cuenca, Ecuador.

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.

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.

Mitad del Mundo

Catequilla Arqueological Site, a prehispanic observatory at Pomasqui Valley Zone, Ecuador.

Molinillo

Matisia grandifolia, also known as Molinillo, a flowering plant from Ecuador

Nebulosa fulvipalpis

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

Patricio Urrutia

The following year, he was traded to Técnico Universitario in Ambato in 1998.

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.

Philemona Williamson

In 1994, Williamson's work was shown as part of the American contingent at the IV Bienal Internacional de Pintura en Cuenca, Ecuador.

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).

Qué tan lejos

The plot follows an Ecuadorian student, Tristeza(Vallejo) from Quito and a Spanish traveler, Esperanza (Martinez) from Barcelona as they unexpectedly travel together from Quito to Cuenca, because Tristeza wants to stop her summer love from marrying and Esperanza wants to travel when a strike caused by the runaway of the president, makes it impossible to travel by bus.

Segundo Castillo

Born in San Lorenzo, Esmeraldas, Castillo started his career with Quito's Club Deportivo Espoli spending 3 years with the team, scoring a decent 11 goals in 66 appearances.

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.

Winchester, Virginia

During the Eisenhower administration, Winchester also formalized a sister city relationship with Ambato, Ecuador.


A. glutinosa

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

ActionQuest

ActionQuest runs sailing and SCUBA training programs throughout the Caribbean, Australia, Ecuador and the Galapagos, Tahiti, and the Mediterranean.

Adiantum alarconianum

It has been collected in a number of locations in western Ecuador and in the Galápagos Islands, and in the nearby Tumbes Province of Peru.

Argenis Moreira

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

Astragalus bidentatus

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

Bomarea goniocaulon

It is endemic to Ecuador, where it has been collected only three times in the Pichincha Province.

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.

Chiton magnificus

The distribution of Chiton magnificus ranges from the Galapagos Islands at the equator, to Cape Horn at 55° South: Chile, Haida Gwaii, Ecuador, Peru.

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.

Ecuador national rugby union team

The only current professional rugby player from Ecuador is Miguel Ángel Coronel Densy who plays for the current Spanish champions La Vila in the División de Honor and the Amlin Challenge Cup.

Enner Valencia

Valencia came to Guayaquil to try out in Emelec in 2008 from Caribe Junior's youth system, the same team where Ecuador star Antonio Valencia played on his early years, .

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.

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.

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).

Icaleptidae

Although Icaleptidae have until now only been described from Ecuador (Cotopaxi) and northern Colombia (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta), they are expected to occur in Venezuela.

Iñaquito

Various mission agencies have their headquarters for Ecuador here including HCJB and Youth World.

Ismael Pérez Pazmiño

Ismael Pérez Pazmiño (Machala, June 30, 1876 - Los Angeles, November 1, 1944) was founder of El Universo newspaper of Guayaquil, Ecuador, and former senator of El Oro province.

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.

When he was 15 years old he moved to Quito, Ecuador where his father began work as a diplomat at the research station.

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.

Lilacine Amazon

The Lilacine Amazon is native to the tropical forests of western Ecuador north of the Gulf of Guayaquil, extending to Nariño in extreme south-western Colombia adjacent to the Ecuadorian border, where it intersects with the subspecies A.

Luis Congo

Luis Gonzalo Congo Minda (born 27 February 1989 in Mira Canton) is an Ecuadorian footballer who plays for LDU Quito as a forward.

Luis Molinari

Luis Molinari (b. Guayaquil, Ecuador 1929 - d. Quito, Ecuador 1994) (Luis Molinari-Flores) was a member of VAN (Vanguardia Artística Nacional), a group of informal constructivist artists founded by Enrique Tábara and Aníbal Villacís.

Machalilla culture

The Machalilla were a prehistoric people in Ecuador, in southern Manabí and the Santa Elena Peninsula.

Maldonado Base

Maldonado Base, also Pedro Vicente Maldonado Base, is the Ecuadorian Antarctic research base situated at Guayaquil Bay, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica opened in 1990.

Miguel Olvera

Miguel Olvera (born November 14, 1939 in Salitre Canton, Ecuador) was a tennis player in the 1960s and 1970s, playing for Ecuador.

Miss United Continent

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

National Model United Nations

Since 2008, NMUN has expanded internationally, hosting conferences in Xi’an, China (2008), Quito, Ecuador (2010), Olomouc, Czech Republic (2010), Lille, France (2012), Galápagos, Ecuador (2013), and Seoul, South Korea, planned for December 2013.

Odontoglossum

, 1886 : Harry's Odontoglossum (Ecuador to Peru) (after Harry Veitch)

Pavonine Quetzal

In the central Amazon Basin its southeastwards limit is the lower two thirds of the Tapajós River drainage; westwards the Quetzal ranges to the foothills of the Andes, from very northern Bolivia, eastern Peru and Ecuador, and southeastern Colombia.

Pelliciera

Pelliciera rhizophorae, known as the tea mangrove, is a less-common species of mangroves found along the Pacific coast from the Gulf of Nicoya in Costa Rica to the Esmeraldas River in Ecuador as well as within stands located in Nicaragua, Panama, and Colombia.

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.

Pink dolphin

The Amazon river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) that live in the river systems of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela.

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.

Remigio Crespo Toral

In 1913, he participated in the foundation of the Banco del Azuay (first bank in Cuenca) led by the prominent businessman Federico Malo Andrade.

Restrepia dodsonii

Restrepia dodsonii, commonly called the Dodson's Restrepia, is a species of orchid endemic to Ecuador (Pichincha).

Ronald L. Ellis

Berlinger had been forced to yield his outtakes for a film about Chevron operations in Ecuador because he had removed a scene at the request of his subjects.

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).

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.

St. Catherine University

Heather M. Hodges ’68 - Former U.S. ambassador to Ecuador and Moldova

Tony Gómez

He played for teams in Uruguay (Club Nacional de Football, Club Atletico River Plate, Montevideo Wanderers, Plaza Colonia), Argentinia (San Lorenzo de Almagro, Club Atlético Independiente, Estudiantes de La Plata), Barcelona Sporting Club in Ecuador and finally Matsunichi in China.

Vincente de Valverde

He was born in Oropesa, Spain, about 1495 and most sources claim he died on Puná Island, now part of Ecuador, in 1541, at the hands of the indigenous peoples.

X. roseum

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