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| What is the capital of Ecuador? | Ecuador
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Quito. Quito is a large and boisterous city in the Andes, located at over 9,000 feet above sea level. Quito is a beautiful and interesting place to visit.
| Mainland Ecuador is often thought as three geographical regions. These are the Costa (the coast), the Sierra (the highlands) and what other region? | Ecuador
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El Oriente. The Amazon basin makes up the Eastern third or so of mainland Ecuador. Though the river itself does not run through Ecuador, many of its tributaries, like the Cuyabeno River, do.
| What is the town of Papallacta famous for? | Ecuador
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Natural Hot Springs. The hot springs in Papallacta are incredible, as are many of the resorts built around them.
| What is the mostly domestic airline of Ecuador which describes itself as "La Linea Aeria del Ecuador?" | Ecuador
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TAME. Though it has occasional flights to Havana and Bogota, TAME is principally a domestic carrier, making flights from Quito, Guayaquil, the Galapagos Islands and the Amazon.
| What is the biggest city in Ecuador from a population standpoint? | Ecuador
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Guayaquil. Guayaquil is an industrial city on the coast. Quito is considered more upscale, Guayaquil is the 'city of the proletariat'.
| In comparing Ecuador to a US state, about which state is it closest to in land area? | Ecuador
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Colorado. It is slightly bigger than Nevada, but not including the islands Ecuador is closest to the size of Colorado.
Village market. Otavalo is probably the most famous market in Ecuador and is more touristy than others in the country.
| How many time zone changes does one go through to get from mainland Ecuador to the Galapagos Islands? | Ecuador
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1. The islands are about 600 miles from the mainland.
Guayaquil. Quayaquil is city with the highest population. It is considerably larger than Quito, the capital.
Andes. The Andes bisect the country. To the west is the coast plain and to the east are lowlands which are part of the Amazon basin.
| What city in the southern mountains was moved from its original valley location to a higher location because of earthquake devastation? | 9 for 10 - Ecuador
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Loja. Loja is the name of a city of the province of which it is the capital city. Originally built in a valley, it was destroyed by an earthquake. When the city was rebuilt it was built in the uplands, not only because of the earthquake threat but because of malaria which plagued the lower area.
Amazon . The main rivers of the Eastern Lowlands are the Napo and Pastaza.
Peru. Ecuador is bordered by Peru to the south and east and by Colombia to the north. Ecuador's west coast is on the Pacific.
| The GDP of Ecuador in 2000 was $37.2 billion US. What does GDP stand for? | 9 for 10 - Ecuador
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Gross domestic product. The GDP (purchasing power parity) was estimated to be $41.7 billion 2002. The GDP (per capita purchasing power parity) was estimated to be $3,100 in 2002.
Ecuador chief exports are oil, bananas and shrimp.
| The eastern region of Ecuador is known by two names. One is the Eastern Lowlands. What is the other? | 9 for 10 - Ecuador
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Oriente. There are three land regions in Ecuador, all of which mainly run from north to south. On the west is the coastal plain, then come the highlands of the Andes, and on the east the Eastern Lowland which is also known as the Oriente. The Oriente is an are covered with tropical forests.
Spanish. Quechua and other Amerindian languages are also spoken.
August 10. July 25 is the foundation of Guayaquil, October 12 is the Day of the Race and October 9 is Guayaquil's Independence Day.
Battle of Pichincha. Military and civilian parades show the nation's pride of the day in 1822, when the country's most important battle in the war for independence from Spain was fought.
Rosalia Arteaga. After the President Abdala Bucaram was fired as a president, the vice president Rosalia Artega took the job, but because of political disagreements she only lasted one day.
Peru and Colombia. Colombia is north of Ecuador and Peru is south and east of Ecuador.
Guayaquil. Guayaquil is also most of the time called "The Main Port of Ecuador" (Puerto Principal del Ecuador) by the people.
Juan Leon Mera wrote and Antonio Neumane composed.. Ecuador's National Anthem is very long, people only sing the chorus and the second verse. It has six verses.
Juan José Flores.. Juan Jose Flores was from Venezuela. He was a General.
Spanish, Quechua, Quichua, other indigenous languages. There are a very wide variety of races in Ecuador. They all have their language but most of the people speak Spanish.
Yellow, blue and red.. Ecuador, Venezuela and Colombia, have a flag with the same three colors. What makes them different is the symbol in the middle of the flag.
Burn the "año viejo" represented by a puppet that people make.. People burn the "año viejo" ("old year" in English), because it is as if they are throwing away all the bad things of the past year that they don't want to repeat in the new year.
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