Sunshine Action America Volunteer Tour - ECUADOR
耀陽行動 - 南美愛心厄瓜多行
Feb
2012
( Mission in 2012, includes COLOMBIA & PERU in same trip)
ECUADOR ,
officially the Republic of Ecuador ; literally, "Republic
of the equator" is a representative democratic republic in
South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the
east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one
of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that
do not have a border with Brazil. The country also includes the
Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 1,000 kilometers
(620 mi) west of the mainland.
Quito - ECUADOR
Ecuador straddles the equator, from which it takes its name,
and has an area of 256,370 square kilometers (98,990 sq mi). Its
capital city is Quito, which was declared a World Heritage Site
by UNESCO in the 1970s for having the best preserved and least
altered historic center in Latin America.
The country's largest city is Guayaquil. The historic center
of Cuenca, the third largest city in the country, was also
declared a World Heritage Site in 1999, for being an outstanding
example of a planned inland Spanish style colonial city in the
Americas. Ecuador is also home—despite its size—to a great
variety of species, many of them endemic, like those of the
Galápagos islands. This species diversity makes Ecuador one of
the seventeen mega-diverse countries in the world. The new
constitution of 2008 is the first in the world to recognize
legally enforceable Rights of Nature, or ecosystem rights.
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