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The country's name means "Equator" in Spanish, truncated from the Spanish official name, República del Ecuador (lit."Republic of the Equator"), derived from the former Ecuador Department of Gran Colombia established in 1824 as a division of the former territory of the Royal Audience of Quito.
Ecuador was an original member of the block, founded by left-wing governments in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2008. Ecuador also asked UNASUR to return the headquarters building of the organization, based in its capital city, Quito. [64] In June 2019, Ecuador agreed to allow US military planes to operate from an airport on the Galapagos ...
Most of the surnames of the Brazilian population have a Portuguese origin, due to Portuguese colonization in the country (it is estimated that 80% of the Brazilian population has at least one Portuguese ancestor), while other South American countries were largely colonized by the Spanish.
The name derives from the mountainous and hilly landscape of the western half of the island of Hispaniola. Hispaniola (name of the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic) – a Latinization of the Spanish name La Española, meaning "The Spanish (island)", a name given to the island by Columbus in 1492. [232]
Their history, which encompasses the last 11,000 years, [2] reaches into the present; 7 percent of Ecuador's population is of indigenous heritage, while another 70 percent are Mestizos of mixed indigenous and European heritage. [3] Genetic analysis indicates that Ecuadorian Mestizos are of three-hybrid genetic ancestry. [4]
Pazmiño (Spanish: or [paθˈmiɲo]) is a Spanish language surname of Sephardi judaeo-converso origin, [2] and originating in its present-day form in what is today Ecuador, [3] formerly the Royal Audience of Quito.
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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.