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| Capital city | Quito |
| System | republic |
| Currency | dollar (USD, $) $ 1 = 100 cents (¢) |
| Time zone | UTC -5 |
| Surface | 283,560 km² |
| Population | 16 624 858 |
| Official language | Spanish |
| Dominant religion | Catholicism |
| Telephone code | 593 |
| Electric voltage | 110V / 60Hz |
| Socket type | A, B |
| Car code | EC |
| Car traffic | right hand |
| Internet domain | .ec |
Ecuador (Spanish Ecuador) - country South America, located on the Pacific Ocean with the capital of St. Quito. It borders with Peru and Columbia.
Characteristic
Transport
Tongue
The official language is Spanish.
Regions
Ecuador is divided into 24 provinces (provincias) - administrative units of the first order. Provinces are divided into 217 cantons, and these in turn into 1024 parishes (parroquias) to distinguish them from church parishes, also known as civil parishes (parroquias civiles).
Cities
According to official data from 2010, Ecuador had over 80 cities with a population exceeding 6.5 thousand. residents. The urban population constitutes 55% of the total population of Ecuador, a significant part of which lives in the two main cities of over a million. The country's capital, Quito, is in second place and, together with Guayaquil, it had over a million inhabitants; 13 cities with a population of 100,000 ÷ 500,000; 8 cities with a population of 50,000 ÷ 100,000; 26 cities with a population of 25,000 ÷ 50,000 and the rest of the cities below 25,000 residents.
The largest cities in Ecuador according to the number of inhabitants (as of November 28, 2010):
L.p. City Province Population
1. Guayaquil Guayas 2,278,691
2. Quito Pichincha 1 607 734
3. Cuenca Azuay 329 928
4. Santo Domingo de los Colorados Pichincha 270 875
5. Machala El Oro 231 260
6. Durán (Eloy Alfaro) Guayas 230 839
7. Manta Manabí 217 553
8. Portoviejo Manabí 206 682
9. Loja Loja 170 280
Interesting places
Objects from the UNESCO World Heritage List
- City Quito
- Sangay National Park
- Galápagos Islands
- Historic center Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca
contact
Diplomatic representations
Diplomatic missions accredited in Ecuador
No post - country served by the Polish embassy in Lima (Peru).
Diplomatic representations accredited in Poland
Embassy of the Republic of Ecuador in Berlin
Joachimstaler Straße 12
10719 Berlin
Phone: 49 30 80 09 695
Fax: 49 30 80 09 69 699
Web page: http://www.alemania.embajada.gob.ec
E-mail: [email protected]