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  2. History of Ecuador - Wikipedia

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    Ecuador became independent initially as part of the Republic of Gran Colombia, before finally breaking away in 1830. Ecuador would endure a period of civil war until the mid nineteenth century after which it would be dominated by caudillos, alternatively conservative and liberal. In the twentieth and twenty first centuries Ecuador would ...

  3. Culture of Ecuador - Wikipedia

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    Historically, the Tigua people have been known for painting highly decorative masks and drums; painting on flat surfaces is somewhat of a modern occurrence. Today, Tigua paintings can be found for sale all over Ecuador, particularly in touristic areas. Tigua artists are celebrated for their use of vibrant colors and simplistic themes.

  4. List of World Heritage Sites in Ecuador - Wikipedia

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    Ecuador has five sites on the list and a further five on the tentative list. The first two sites listed in Ecuador were the Galápagos Islands and the city of Quito, in 1978, which were also the first two sites inscribed to the list itself, with the reference numbers 1 and 2, respectively. [3]

  5. Indigenous peoples in Ecuador - Wikipedia

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    The people of this culture are known as Paleo-Indians, and the end of their era is marked by the extinction of the megafauna they hunted. The Archaic period is defined as "the stage of migratory hunting and gathering cultures continuing into the environmental conditions approximating those of the present."

  6. Ecuadorians - Wikipedia

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    Ecuador has a population of about 1,120,000 descendants from sub-Saharan African people. The Afro-Ecuadorian culture is found primarily in the country's northwest coastal region. Afro-Ecuadorians form a majority (70%) in the province of Esmeraldas and also have an important concentration in the Valle del Chota in the Imbabura Province.

  7. 7 of the best places to visit in Ecuador - AOL

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    Delightful colonial cities, active volcanoes and sections of the Amazon await you in the land of the Equator

  8. Ecuador - Wikipedia

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    Even though Ecuador's white population during its colonial era were mainly descendants from Spain, today Ecuador's white population is a result of a mixture of European immigrants, predominantly from Spain with people from Italy, Germany, France, and Switzerland who have settled in the early 20th century.

  9. Pre-Columbian Ecuador - Wikipedia

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    The history of Ecuador is better known from the point of the Inca expansion than during the Pre-Columbian era. In 1463, the Inca warrior Pachacuti and his son Tupac Yupanqui began the incorporation of Ecuador into Inca rule. They began by defeating the people of the Sierra including the Quitus tribe (the people for whom modern-day Quito is named