Ecuador

República del Ecuador

Republic of Ecuador

Flag of Ecuador
Flag	Coat of arms

Motto
"Dios, patria y libertad" (Spanish)
"Pro Deo, Patria et Libertas" (Latin)
"God, homeland and liberty"

Anthem
Salve, Oh Patria
We Salute You, Our Homeland

Location of Ecuador

Capital Quito
009′S, 7821′W]

Demonym Ecuadorian

- President Rafael Correa

- Vice-President Lenín Moreno

Independence

- from Spain May 24 1822

- from Gran Colombia May 13 1830

- Water (%) 8.8

Population

- 2007 estimate 13,810,000 (65th)

GDP (PPP) 2006 estimate

- Total $61.7 billion (70th)

- Per capita $4,776 (111th)

Gini^? 42 (medium)

HDI (2003) 0.765 (medium) (83rd)

Currency U.S. dollar² (USD)

Time zone (UTC-5 (-6³))

¹ Kichwa and other Amerindian languages spoken by indigenous communities.

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Writing system: Latin (Spanish variant)
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: —
ISO 639-3: —

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Official status
Official language of: Vatican City
Used for official purposes, but not spoken in everyday speech
Regulated by: Opus Fundatum Latinitas
Roman Catholic Church
Language codes
ISO 639-1: la
ISO 639-2: lat
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A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that evokes and eulogizes the history, traditions and struggles of its people, recognized either by a country's government as the official
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"Salve, Oh Patria!" ("We Salute You, Our Homeland") is the national anthem of Ecuador. The lyrics were written in 1865 by the poet Juan León Mera, under request of the Ecuadorian Senate; the music was composed by Antonio Neumane.
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capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has a second meaning based on an alternative sense of "capital") is the center of government.
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San Francisco de Quito

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Nickname: Luz de América (Light of America)
Map of Ecuador showing location of Quito
Coordinates:
Country Ecuador
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Population: 13,212,742 (July 2004 est.)
Urban: 57%
Rural: 43%

Age structure:
0-14 years: 34.9% (male 2,430,303; female 2,351,166)
15-64 years: 60.6% (male 4,116,289; female 4,198,667)
65 years and over: 4.
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Santiago de Guayaquil

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Seal
Nickname: La Perla del Pacifico
Country Ecuador
Province Guayas
Canton Guayaquil (canton)
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Writing system: Latin (Spanish variant)
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: —
ISO 639-3: —

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government is a body that has the power to make and the authority to enforce rules and laws within a civil, corporate, religious, academic, or other organization or group.^[1]
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List of forms of government

Anarchism
Aristocracy
Authoritarianism
Autocracy
Communist state
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Direct democracy

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Ecuador

This article is part of the series:
Politics of Ecuador

President
Rafael Correa
Vice President
Lenn Moreno
National Congress of Ecuador

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Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado (born 6 April 1963 in Guayaquil) ^[1]is the President of the Republic of Ecuador. A trained economist, he previously served as the country's finance minister.
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Lenín Voltaire Moreno Garcés (b. 19 March 1953, in Nuevo Rocafuerte in the province of Orellana) has been the Vice-President of Ecuador since 15 January 2007. He and Rafael Correa were elected on 26 November 2006 during the 2006 general election.
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Independence is the self-government of a nation, country, or state by its residents and population, or some portion thereof, generally exercising sovereignty.

The term independence is used in contrast to subjugation,
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Motto
"Plus Ultra" (Latin)
"Further Beyond"
Anthem
"Marcha Real" ¹
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May 24 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

Events

1218 - The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.

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1819 1820 1821 - 1822 - 1823 1824 1825

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Gran Colombia (Spanish for Greater Colombia) is a name used today for the Republic of Colombia of the period 1819-1831.

This short-lived republic in South America encompassed the territories of present-day Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama, as well as
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Events

1497 - Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.

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18th century - 19th century - 20th century
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1827 1828 1829 - 1830 - 1831 1832 1833

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population is the collection of people or organisms of a particular species living in a given geographic area or mortality, and migration, though the field encompasses many dimensions of population change including the family (marriage and divorce), public health, work and the
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list of countries ordered according to population. The list includes and ranks sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories. Figures are based on the most recent estimate or projection by the national census authority where available and generally rounded off.
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