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The Cordillera del Cóndor (Condor mountain range) is a mountain range in the eastern Andes that is shared by and part of the international border between Ecuador and Peru. Ornate Antwren ( Epinecrophylla ornata ) from the mountain range, which has a rich population of bird life.
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.
Descent into the Chota Valley by bus, coming from Carchi Province. The upper valley of the Mira River, called the Chota River in its upstream portion, in northern Ecuador, and the small villages in it are usually referred to as 'El Chota', and it runs east–west between the two ranges of the Andes.
Ciudad Mitad del Mundo as seen from the west from the 30-meter-high terrace of the museum The yellow line divides the 2 hemispheres. Older monument to the equator in Calacalí (2008) The Ciudad Mitad del Mundo ( Middle of the World City ) is a tract of land owned by the prefecture of the province of Pichincha , Ecuador .
Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador (PUCE) - Sede Ambato "La Catolica" is a branch of Quito's Catholic University. The Ambato campus was created on January 13, 1982, by the bishop of Ambato, Monseñor Vicente Cisneros. The university wasn't completed until 1994 when classes first began.
Machala (Spanish pronunciation:) is a city in south-west Ecuador. It is the capital of the El Oro Province , and is located near the Gulf of Guayaquil on fertile lowlands . Machala has a population of 288,072 (2022 census); it is the sixth-biggest city in the country, and the second-most important port.
The city is named Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca in honor of the city of Cuenca in Spain, birthplace of the Spanish viceroy of Peru Andrés Hurtado de Mendoza, who was the one who ordered the Spanish Gil Ramírez Dávalos to found the city and the fact that this place, in its geographical features, is very similar to the Spanish city.
Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas (Spanish pronunciation: [ˌsanto ðoˈmiŋgo ðe los ˈtsatʃilas]) [4] is a province in the Republic of Ecuador, created in October 2007 from territory previously in the province of Pichincha.