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Provisional flag of the State of Ecuador, decreed on 19 November 1830. 1835–1845: First flag used officially by Ecuador after its separation from Gran Colombia. 1845: During the 1845 Marcist Revolution the pale blue and white colours return, but as a vertical tricolour of white, blue, white, with three white stars in the central stripe. 1845 ...
Yellow for the sun and gold, blue for the sky and liberty, red for blood and freedom National Mountains Chimborazo: National symbol: see coat of arms National river Guayas: National symbol: see coat of arms National symbol Steam boat on the Guayas River with the Chimborazo in the background
The eight colors are yellow, blue, red (all from the national flag), sky blue, green, grey, silver and gold. [7] There is also a nine piece instruction on how to draw the coat of arms, [8] followed by a full color drawing and a black and white drawing of the arms. [9]
National colours are frequently part of a country's set of national symbols.Many states and nations have formally adopted a set of colours as their official "national colours" while others have de facto national colours that have become well known through popular use.
Ecuadorian law describes the arms as follows: [1] The Arms of Ecuador shall be an oval shield containing inside, in the upper part the sun with the part of the Zodiac where one finds the signs corresponding to the memorable months of March, April, May and June; in the lower part, to the right shall be represented the historical mountain Chimborazo, wherefrom shall start a river, and where it ...
Afro-Ecuadorians are an ethnic group in Ecuador who are descendants of enslaved sub-Saharan Africans brought by the Spanish during their conquest of Ecuador from the Incas. They make up from 3% to 5% of Ecuador's population. [25] [26] Ecuador has a population of about 1,120,000 descendants from sub-Saharan African people.
Santo Domingo de los Colorados, [3] often simply referred to as Santo Domingo (Quechua: Tsachila), is an Ecuadorian city and seat of the canton that bears its name and the Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas Province.
An 1890 stamp of Ecuador An 1899 stamp of Ecuador. This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Ecuador.. Ecuador is a republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west.