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An enlargeable basic map of Ecuador. Pronunciation: / ˈ ɛ k w ə d ɔːr / Common English country name: Ecuador; Official English country name: The Republic of Ecuador; Common endonym: Ecuador; Official endonym: República del Ecuador (literally: Republic of the Equator) Adjectival(s): Ecuadorian; Demonym(s): Etymology: Name of Ecuador ...
The Cantons of Ecuador are the second-level subdivisions of Ecuador, below the provinces. There are 221 cantons in the country, [1] of which three are not in any province [clarification needed]. The cantons are further sub-divided into parishes, which are classified as either urban or rural. Below is a list of cantons by province.
Regionalization, or zoning, is the union of two or more adjoining provinces in order to decentralize the administrative functions of the capital, Quito. In Ecuador, there are seven regions, or zones, each shaped by the following provinces: Region 1 (42,126 km 2, or 16,265 mi 2): Esmeraldas, Carchi, Imbabura, and Sucumbios.
No. City Province 2010 Census 2001 Census 1990 Census 1 Guayaquil: Guayas: 2,278,691: 1,985,379: 1,508,444 2 Quito: Pichincha: 1,607,734: 1,399,378: 1,100,847 3 Cuenca
The politics of Ecuador are multi-party. [1] The central government polity is a quadrennially elected presidential , unicameral representative democracy . The President of Ecuador is head of state and head of the army on a multi-party system , and leads a cabinet with further executive power .
Ecuador is one of seventeen megadiverse countries in the world according to Conservation International, [23] and it has the most biodiversity per square kilometer of any nation. [108] [109] Ecuador has 1,600 bird species (15% of the world's known bird species) in the continental area and 38 more endemic in the Galápagos. In addition to more ...
ISO 3166-2:EC is the entry for Ecuador in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1. Currently for Ecuador, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 24 ...
Cañar (Spanish pronunciation:) is a province in Ecuador.The capital is Azogues.At the time of census 2010 the province had a population of 225,184. [3] It contains the 16th-century ruins of Ingapirca, the best-known Inca settlement in Ecuador and a product of their conquest of the indigenous Cañari.