Officially the Republic of Ecuador 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 Galapagos Islands in the Pacific, about 1,000 kilometers 620 mi west of the mainland.
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 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. This species diversity makes Ecuador one of the seventeen megadiverse 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.
Ecuador is a presidential republic and became independent in 1830, after having been part of the Spanish colonial empire and the republic of Gran Colombia. It is a medium income country with an hdi score of 0.807 in 2007, and about 38.3% of the people living below the poverty line.
The English noun people has two distinct fields of application
as a countable noun, a group of humans, either with unspecified traits, or specific characteristics.
As a mass noun, people is the suppletive plural of person. The word persons is sometimes used in place of people, especially when it would be ambiguous with its collective sense. It can collectively refer to all humans or it can be used to identify a certain ethnic or religious group. People of color is a phrase used in North America to describe non whites.
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