In South America a travel to Ecuador leads to a remarkable country about the size as New Zealand with its 256,370 square km. The name derived from overlapping the equator with the Pacific Ocean bordering the west, Columbia to the north and Peru at the south and east border.
The population is with 13.6 million more than 3 times the amount of New Zealand. In Quito, the capital, live about 1.4 million people while almost double the population live in Guayaquil the country’s largest city.
As a country intertwined with the history of Spanish conquerors the official languages are Spanish and Quechua.
The UNESCO has declared the well preserved historic centres of Quito and Cuenca, the second and third largest cities, as World Heritage sites.
In 2002 the World "Conservation Monitoring Centre" identified Ecuador due to its biodiversity as one of seventeen mega diverse countries. Many species are endemic in particular those living on Galapagos Islands. This fact propelled the archipelago into a recognized World Heritage Site. The island group lies almost 1000km off the west coast along the equatorial line.
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