Ecuador Destination - Tours and Activities

Cotopaxi Volcano -Ecuador

Ecuador is a country of 256,370 km2 and 13 million inhabitants; it is under the equinoctial line. Ecuador's history dates back to 15,000 and 20,000 BC, traces of which can be found in archaeological sites located all across Ecuador. Once part of the Inca Empire, Ecuador came under Spanish rule in 1533. It became independent in 1822.

Crossed by the Andes mountain range, which allows a diverse of climates and live zones, dividing to the country in a four perfectly defined regions range: the high lands, coast, amazon basin and the Galápagos islands, converting the country in a great diversity, of plants, animals in a so little territorial extension.

The coastal region consists of fertile plains, rolling hills, and sedimentary basins traversed by many rivers that run downwards from the Andes Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. The Andes crosses the country from north to south. The Occidental and the Oriental Mountain Ranges are born out of this mountain system forming plains and valleys along the Andean Corridor with a rich fertile soil of there active volcanoes.

Cuenca - Ecuador

Ecuador is home to ten percent of the world's plant species, the majority of which grow in the northeastern Amazon, the diversity of the climate here has given rise to more than 25,000 species of trees. Moreover, the Andes is home to an estimated 8,200 plant and vegetable. Three of the twelve key biodiversity zones identified by the naturalist Norman Myers can be found on the Ecuadorian mainland.

In Ecuador its spoken the Spanish Castilian and ten indigenous dialects that involves a , characteristics and colors of skin is the best expression to consider by all means to this country like multiethnic, this causes that also is a rich culture and its diverse feeding, and that the Ecuadorian is Pacific, amiable, warm and charming…