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The Instituto Nacional Meteorologia e Hidrologia (INAMHI) is the national meteorological agency of Ecuador. [1]INAMHI's functions are: Planning, directing, and overseeing meteorological and hydrological activity in coordination with other agencies.
The rivers of Ecuador are an important part of the nation's geography and economy. Most of the over 2,000 rivers and streams [ 1 ] have headwaters in the Andes mountain range, flowing therefrom either westward toward the Pacific Ocean or eastward toward the Amazon River . [ 2 ]
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The Guayas River forms a very complex delta. Its most important feature is the existence of a slough called Estero Salado, surrounded by swamps and affected by tides.The area between the Guayas River and the Estero Salado forms a maze of islands, some of which have been transformed into slums.
Much of Ecuador is underlain by Precambrian igneous and metamorphic crystalline basement rocks. The Piedras Group rocks date to the period and outcrop in El Oro Province on the western Andean slope in the southwest of the country and includes greenschist and amphibolite with small intercalations of quartz-sericite schist and quartzite, dated to 743 million years ago in the Proterozoic.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... [2] high · 22nd: Website: ... Los Ríos (Spanish pronunciation: [los ˈri.os]) is a province in Ecuador. The capital is ...
The Sionas live in the area of the upper Cuyabeno lakes network and along the Tarapuy river, while the Cofans, and the Secoyas live on the banks of the Aguarico, an affluent of the Amazon.