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This is a list of newspapers in Ecuador.. Ambato. El Heraldo; Babahoyo. Clarín; Bahía de Caráquez. El Globo; Cuenca. El Mercurio; La Tarde; El Tiempo; Galápagos Islands. El Colono; Guayaquil ...
The first university in the city, the Universidad de Cuenca, was established in 1867. It is considered the third oldest university of the country, after the Universidad Central del Ecuador (1836) and the Universidad Nacional de Loja (1859). Ever since, the city has been growing and more universities were created with new careers.
It adjoins the Cuenca Alimentadora del Distrito Nacional de Riego 043 Estado de Nayarit on the west, which covers the portion of the Sierra Fría drained by the Juchipila River. Both the Verde and Juchipila are southward-flowing tributaries of the Río Grande de Santiago.
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.
El Mercurio is a newspaper published in Cuenca, Ecuador. It is the city's main newspaper. [1] References
Ecuador: A Country Study. Washington, D.C.: GPO for the Library of Congress. Terry, Matt (2007-12-15). "Ecuador's Water Crisis: Damming the Water Capital of the World". International Rivers "Ecuador to Build 11 New Hydroelectric Dams". Xinhua News Agency. 2008-05-22. Archived from the original on March 1, 2010
It has a length of 390 km (240 mi), of which the last 50 km (31 mi) extend along the natural border between Ecuador and Peru (in the department of Loreto). The lower course of the Aguarico River was finalized and legally demarcated as part of the long-disputed Ecuador-Peru frontier according to The Rio de Janeiro Protocol of 1942.
In 2000, the province was the sole remaining majority-indigenous province of Ecuador, with 56.3% of the province either claiming indigenous identity or speaking an indigenous language. [ 3 ] This province is one of the many located in Ecuador's section of the Amazon Rainforest .