[180] They reside mostly in Quito and Guayaquil. However, what was pending was whether the new border around the Jaen region should follow the Chinchipe River or the Huancabamba River. It has no significance in terms of climate or geology. Pasillo is a genre of indigenous Latin music. In Ecuador's current judicial system, judges are selected in a contest of merits, rather than government appointments. The coast is also a leading producer of bananas, cocoa beans (to make chocolate), shrimp, tilapia, mango, and passion fruit, among other products. Kenneth3748 +2. To explore them all, start in Ecuador and follow this notional line that separates the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere. 200S 7730W / 2.000S 77.500W / -2.000; -77.500, This article is about the country in South America. Also there is a special legal regime for Amerindians. [116] This is explained to an extent by emigration and the economic stability achieved after adopting the U.S. dollar as official means of transaction (before 2000, the Ecuadorian sucre was prone to rampant inflation). The Rio Protocol failed to precisely resolve the border along a little river in the remote Cordillera del Cndor region in southern Ecuador. There are 13 countries along the Equator passing through three of the seven continents. Countries along the equator such as Brazil, Congo, and Indonesia host more than half of the global rainforest. 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", "Colombianos en Ecuador vuelven a casa tras terremoto "para empezar de nuevo", "Ms del 70% de los ecuatorianos que viven en Espaa quieren volver a su pas", "Entre lgrimas, 14 ecuatorianos dejan Espaa por la crisis y vuelven a su pas", "Cuenca Ecuador How The American Dream Moved South", "Central America and Caribbean:: PAPUA NEW GUINEA", "Yogurt Persa: De Ecuador a Argentina y Latinoamrica", "Toward a characterization of Ecuadorian ceviche: much more than shrimp", "Las esculturas de Teddy Cobea las favoritas del pblico", CIA Library Site: Chief of State and Cabinet Members, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ecuador&oldid=1167518530, "Unemployment hit a record low of 4.1 percent at the end of last year. A few countries in cold climates, including Canada, Norway and Russia, likely benefited economically from global warming in past decades, while poorer countries closer to the equator suffered . The Equator is the imaginary circle around Earth that is everywhere equidistant from the geographic poles and lies in a plane perpendicular to Earths axis. [165] The infant mortality rate is 13 per 1,000 live births,[166] a major improvement from approximately 76 in the early 1980s and 140 in 1950. The first and most substantial wave of modern immigration to Ecuador consisted of Spanish colonists, following the arrival of Europeans in 1499. In addition, Ecuador's eastern border with the Portuguese colony of Brazil in the Amazon Basin was modified before the Wars of Independence by the First Treaty of San Ildefonso (1777) between the Spanish Empire and the Portuguese Empire. Thanks to the Earth's axial tilt, we have a northern hemisphere and a southern hemisphere that experience different seasons and different amounts of sunlight. Jul 5, 2014. Updates? These are elected by the Judicial Council on the basis of opposition proceedings and merits. When Quito withdrew in 1830, the traditional name was changed in favor of the "Republic of the Equator." Between 1904 and 1942, Ecuador lost territories in a series . Our list starts on the west coast of South America in Ecuador and moves eastwards listing each country in turn, ending in Kiribati, the eastern most country on the globe. The 35th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 35 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.It crosses Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America and the Atlantic Ocean.. [192] The consumption of "Cuy" or Guinea Pig, de rigueur in mostly indigenous communities, reflects the predominantly native character of the highlands. Ecuadorian painters include Eduardo Kingman, Oswaldo Guayasamn, and Camilo Egas from the Indiginist Movement; Manuel Rendon, Jaime Zapata, Enrique Tbara, Anbal Villacs, Theo Constant, Luis Molinari, Araceli Gilbert, Judith Gutierrez, Flix Arauz, and Estuardo Maldonado from the Informalist Movement; Teddy Cobea from expressionism and figurative style[199][200][201] and Luis Burgos Flor with his abstract, futuristic style. Part of Ecuador's population can speak Amerindian languages, in some cases as a second language. [68], UN's Human Rights Council's (HRC) Universal Periodic Review (UPR) has treated the restrictions on freedom of expression and efforts to control NGOs and recommended that Ecuador should stop the criminal sanctions for the expression of opinions, and delay in implementing judicial reforms. Colombia protested stating that its claims extended south toward the Napo and Amazon Rivers. Much of the Amazonian rain forest is in Brazil and of course much of the Amazon river. Ecuador has negotiated bilateral treaties with other countries, besides belonging to the Andean Community of Nations,[130] and an associate member of Mercosur. Its route starts in the south of Cuenca and ends in the north at the Parque Industrial neighbourhood. The equator is just under 25,000 miles long. [99] Additionally, oil exploitation of the Amazon rainforest has led to the release of billions of gallons of untreated wastes, gas, and crude oil into the environment,[100] contaminating ecosystems and causing detrimental health effects to Amerindian peoples. Spanish is spoken as the first language by more than 90% of the population and as a first or second language by more than 98%. [32], Ecuador and Peru signed the Brasilia Presidential Act peace agreement on 26 October 1998, which ended hostilities, and effectively put an end to the Western Hemisphere's longest running territorial dispute. Equator Countries 2023 - World Population Review It is governed as a democratic presidential republic. And in the Middle East, the heat index reached 152 degrees, nearing or surpassing levels thought . The rest of Ecuador gained its independence after Antonio Jos de Sucre defeated the Spanish Royalist forces at the Battle of Pichincha, near Quito. In January 2009, the Central Bank of Ecuador (BCE) put the 2010 growth forecast at 6.88%. On 21 July 1924, the Ponce-Castro Oyanguren Protocol was signed between Ecuador and Peru where both agreed to hold direct negotiations and to resolve the dispute in an equitable manner and to submit the differing points of the dispute to the United States for arbitration. [178] Though they emigrated to escape Ottoman Turkish religious oppression, they were called "Turks" by Ecuadorians because they carried Ottoman passports. [27], After nearly 300 years of Spanish rule, Quito still remained small with a population of 10,000 people. The equator runs through some islands . Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. The sentences to journalists were years of imprisonment and millions of dollars of compensation, even though defendants had been pardoned. Ecuador protested that it claimed the Amazon Basin between the Caqueta river and the Maraon-Amazon river. There are over 200 countries in the World. In Antarctica, Ecuador has maintained a research station for peaceful scientific study as a member nation of the Antarctica Treaty. Today, 10 August is celebrated as Independence Day, a national holiday. [118] Since the late 1960s, the exploitation of oil increased production, and proven reserves are estimated at 6.51 billion barrels as of 2011[update]. The country is a founding member of the United Nations, Organization of American States, Mercosur, PROSUR, and the Non-Aligned Movement. In the case of Ecuador, Flores based Ecuador's de jure claims on the Real Cedulas of 1563, 1739, and 1740; with modifications in the Amazon Basin and Andes Mountains that were introduced through the Treaty of Guayaquil (1829) which Peru reluctantly signed, after the overwhelmingly outnumbered Gran Colombian force led by Antonio Jos de Sucre defeated President and General La Mar's Peruvian invasion force in the Battle of Tarqui. The 4 Hemispheres Of The World - WorldAtlas 0 class=notpageimage| The Equator on a map of Earth The Minister of Public Health is appointed directly by the President of the Republic. Infoplease is part of the Sandbox Learning family of educational and reference sites for parents, teachers and students. Among the people who have a religion, 80.44% are Roman Catholic Latin Rite (see List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Ecuador), 11.30% are Evangelical Protestants, 1.29% are Jehovah's Witnesses and 6.97% other (mainly Jewish, Buddhists and Latter-day Saints). It is the westernmost country that lies on the equator.[88]. The most notable are those coming from Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Colonel Richelieu Levoyer, Government Minister, proposed and implemented a Plan to return to the constitutional system through universal elections. The negotiations turned into intense arguments during the next 7 months and finally on 29 September 1937, the Peruvian representatives decided to break off the negotiations. It also required the government to respect the opinion of Indigenous peoples about different industrial projects on their land. [52], A series of protests began on 3 October 2019 against the end of fuel subsidies and austerity measures adopted by President of Ecuador Lenn Moreno and his administration. Of these only 13 lie on the equator, in three continents - Africa, Asia and South America. 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This is because the path of the sun is almost perpendicular to the horizon for the majority of the year. The Suns rays are directly overhead (that is, striking at a 90 angle with respect to the surface) at noon during both equinoxes at the Equator, and they are nearly direct for the remainder of the year. During the course of the EcuadorianPeruvian War, Peru gained control over part of the disputed territory and some parts of the province of El Oro, and some parts of the province of Loja, demanding that the Ecuadorian government give up its territorial claims. [129] Incomes from tourism has been increasing during the last few years because of the Government showing the variety of climates and the biodiversity of Ecuador. [26] Each civilization developed its own distinctive architecture, pottery, and religious interests. A few months later, a part of the Peruvian liberation army of San Martin decided to occupy the independent cities of Tumbez and Jan with the intention of using these towns as springboards to occupy the independent city of Guayaquil and then to liberate the rest of the Audiencia de Quito (Ecuador). Infoplease is a reference and learning site, combining the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas and several almanacs loaded with facts. The major areas of scientific research in Ecuador have been in the medical fields, tropical and infectious diseases treatments, agricultural engineering, pharmaceutical research, and bioengineering. The climate in the Andean highlands is temperate and relatively dry, and the Amazon basin on the eastern side of the mountains shares the climate of other rainforest zones. After being elected in 2017, President Lenin Moreno's government adopted economically liberal policies: reduction of public spending, trade liberalization, flexibility of the labour code, etc. The untimely death of both the heir Ninan Cuchi and the Emperor Huayna Capac, from a European disease that spread into Ecuador, created a power vacuum between two factions and led to a civil war. At Earth's hottest spots, heat is testing the limits of human survival [104], In 2022 the supreme court of Ecuador decided that "under no circumstances can a project be carried out that generates excessive sacrifices to the collective rights of communities and nature." Various peoples had settled in the area of future Ecuador before the arrival of the Incas. Earth is widest at its Equator. He announced that the country would default on over $3 billion worth of bonds; he then pledged to fight creditors in international courts and succeeded in reducing the price of outstanding bonds by more than 60%. In Ecuador's southern Andes Mountain region where the Maraon cuts across, Ecuador had de jure claims to an area it called Jan de Bracamoros. The 45th parallel north is often called the halfway point between the equator and the North Pole, but the true halfway point is 16.0 km (9.9 mi) north of it (approximately between 4508'36" and 4508'37") because Earth . This article was most recently revised and updated by, National Geographic - Education - Equator, Equator - Children's Encyclopedia (Ages 8-11), Equator - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up). Etymology. [3] [4] [a] Most of humanity resides in the Global South. 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. Moreover, to add legitimacy to his claims, on 16 February 1840, Flores signed a treaty with Spain, whereby Flores convinced Spain to officially recognize Ecuadorian independence and its sole rights to colonial titles over Spain's former colonial territory known anciently to Spain as the Kingdom and Presidency of Quito. [148] Quito's old city-center airport is being turned into parkland, with some light industrial use. Its best known professional teams include; Emelec from Guayaquil, Liga De Quito from Quito; Barcelona S.C. from Guayaquil, the most popular team in Ecuador, also the team with most local championships; Deportivo Quito, and El Nacional from Quito; Olmedo from Riobamba; and Deportivo Cuenca from Cuenca. View States. Our editors update and regularly refine this enormous body of information to bring you reliable information. Larrea, Julio. In astronomy the celestial equator is the great circle in which the plane of the terrestrial Equator intersects the celestial sphere; it consequently is equidistant from the celestial poles.
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