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A calcium–aluminium-rich inclusion or Ca–Al-rich inclusion (CAI) is a submillimeter- to centimeter-sized light-colored calcium- and aluminium-rich inclusion found in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites. The four CAIs that have been dated using the Pb-Pb chronometer yield a weighted mean age of 4567.30 ± 0.16 Myr.
It is bordered on the north by San Miguel and Putumayo rivers and on the east and south by Peru.Oriente has an area of about 50,000 square miles (130,000 square km) and consists of little-explored and virtually unexploited tropical forest inhabited by a tiny fraction of the country's population, living mostly in small villages along the river courses.
This is a list of Ecuadorian provinces by Human Development Index as of 2024, using the 2022 data. [2] The following report is not official, but it is calculated with the official data of the indicators of the index, given by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC), [3] and the Central Bank of Ecuador (BCE).
Ecuador is located on the west by the Pacific Ocean, and has 2,237 km of coastline.It has 2237 km of land boundaries, with Colombia in the north (708 km border) and Peru in the east and south (1,529 km border). 283,561 km 2 (109,484 sq mi) is land and 6,720 km 2 (2,595 sq mi) water.
The Napo River (Spanish: Río Napo) is a tributary to the Amazon River that rises in Ecuador on the flanks of the east Andean volcanoes of Antisana, Sincholagua and Cotopaxi. The total length is 1,075 km (668 mi). The river drains an area of ca 103,000 km 2. The mean annual discharge at Mazán 6,800 m 3 /s (240,000 cu ft/s). [6] [7] [8]
Siete Iglesias Municipal Ecological Conservation Area or Área Ecológica de Conservacíon Siete Iglesias is a nationalpark in Morona Santiago, Ecuador. It serves as a conservation area with some tourism. The park is named for one of its higher mountains, "Siete Igelsias," or "seven churches."
It is surrounded by the remaining cantons, with exception of the Chinchipe, El Pangui and Paquisha cantons. To the west the canton borders with the Loja Province . The Zamora Canton is the entrance from the Sierra Region towards the rest of the province by the Troncal Amazónica Highway , in a stretch of 62 kilometers from Loja city.
Ecuador is: an equatorial megadiverse country; Location: Western Hemisphere, on the equator. South America; Time zones: Galápagos Islands – Galápagos Time ; Rest of Ecuador – Ecuador Time ; Extreme points of Ecuador High: Chimborazo 6,267 m (20,561 ft) – farthest point from the center of the Earth; Low: Pacific Ocean 0 m