{"id":65482,"date":"2025-09-28T15:12:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T09:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=65482"},"modified":"2025-09-29T17:30:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:00:36","slug":"key-facts-about-ecuador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-ecuador\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Ecuador Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ecuador&#8217;s Indigenous groups are fiercely opposing President Noboa&#8217;s plan to expand oil drilling in the Amazon.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Ecuador<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a country located on the <\/span><b>northwestern edge of South America.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>History:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Ecuador <\/span><b>was<\/b> <b>part of the Inca Empire<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> until the Spanish arrived and claimed the country as a Spanish colony.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is divided into <\/span><b>four geographic regions:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the coastal lowlands and mountain area; the Central <\/span><b>Andes Mountains<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and its two major chains (<\/span><b>Cordillera Occidental<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the West) and the (<\/span><b>Cordillera Oriental<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the east).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Bordering countries:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is bordered by <\/span><b>Colombia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the north, by <\/span><b>Peru <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the <\/span><b>south and east.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Maritime boundaries:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It shares borders with the <\/span><b>Pacific Ocean<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the west.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ecuador also includes the <\/span><b>Galapagos Islands.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Highest Point:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The highest point in Ecuador is <\/span><b>Mount Chimborazo<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, at 20,560ft (6,268m).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Volcano:<\/b> <b>Cotopaxi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is one of the world&#8217;s highest active volcanoes located in the Andes Mountains.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Climate:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Tropical along coast, becoming cooler inland at higher elevations; tropical in Amazonian jungle lowlands.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Natural resources:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Petroleum, fish, timber, hydropower<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Rivers: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Babahoyo, Chira, Coca, Curaray.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Capital City: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quito<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/environment\/amazon-not-for-sale-ecuadors-indigenous-groups-denounce-president-noboas-massive-oil-explansion-plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DTE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecuador, on South America\u2019s northwest edge, borders Colombia, Peru &#038; the Pacific, and includes the Galapagos Islands with diverse regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":65718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2954,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-65482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-ecuador","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}