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Ecuador can be split up into four geographically distinct areas; the Costa (coast), the Sierra , El Oriente (the east; which includes the Amazonic region) and the Galápagos Islands. There is tension and general dislike between the residents of the highlands Quito and the coast Guayaquil the two largest cities of the country.
Ecuador, [a] officially the Republic of Ecuador, [b] is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 1,000 kilometers (621 mi) west of the mainland.
The sortable table below contains the three sets of ISO 3166-1 country codes for each of its 249 countries, links to the ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes, and the Internet country code top-level domains (ccTLD) which are based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard with the few exceptions noted. See the ISO 3166-3 standard for former country codes.
Toggle Culture of Ecuador subsection. 5.1 Art in Ecuador. ... International rankings of Ecuador; ISO country codes: EC, ECU, 218; ISO region codes: See ISO 3166-2:EC;
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.
Ecuador’s historical background has left the country with a very stratified social environment. [32] This is the nucleus of the stratification of different social classes in Ecuador. There have been many attempts to reduce such stratification such as making Indigenous languages official in 1998.
Cultural history by country (96 C) Honorifics by country (5 C, ... Culture of Ecuador (25 C, 23 P) Culture of Egypt ... Code of Conduct;
Cultural Itinerary of Ecuador's Trans-Andean Train: Chimborazo, Guayas: 2016 ii, iv, v (cultural) The narrow-gauge railway was built between 1873 and 1908 to connect the highland and coastal regions of the country, from Guayaquil to Quito.