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Ecuador has a population of about 1,120,000 descendants from African people. The Afro-Ecuadorian culture is found primarily in the country's northwest coastal region. Africans 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 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.
1 Population as per the census carried out on 2022-10-01 [3]. In addition, there were four areas that were non-delimited. These locations were: Las Golondrinas: In a referendum held on 3 April 2016, 56.9% of voters voted in favor of Las Golondrinas being incorporated into the Imbabura Province.
It was founded decades after other major Spanish settlements in the region, such as Quito (1534), Guayaquil (1538), and Loja (1548). Cuenca's population and importance grew steadily during the colonial era. Cuenca reached the peak of its importance in the first years of Ecuador's independence; Cuenca achieved its independence on November 3, 1820.
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 .
This is a list of Ecuadorian provinces by Human Development Index as of 2024, using the 2022 data. [1] The following report is not official, but it is calculated with the official data of the indicators of the index, given by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC), [2] and the Central Bank of Ecuador (BCE). [3]
Even though Ecuador's white population during its colonial era were mainly descendants from Spain, today Ecuador's white population is a result of a mixture of European immigrants, predominantly from Spain with people from Italy, Germany, France, and Switzerland who have settled in the early 20th century.
Rest of Ecuador – Ecuador Time ; Extreme points of Ecuador High: Chimborazo 6,267 m (20,561 ft) – farthest point from the center of the Earth; Low: Pacific Ocean 0 m; Land boundaries: 2,010 km Peru 1,420 km Colombia 590 km; Coastline: Pacific Ocean 2,237 km; Population of Ecuador: 13,755,680 people (2007 estimate) - 73rd