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Can someone write something about Ecuadorian volleyball which I think is more of a community occasion than US volleyball... See Kennington Park in London... Szczels 18:54, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
The right name's JAMIL MAHUAD and he was responsible of the biggest and worst economical crisis of our country, a corrupt politician who robbed millions of USD together with his "friends", ledding our country into an even deeper status of poverty. He lives covered by a nice and confortable "Political Refugee" agreement in Costa Rica.
It is my understanding that Mahuad lives confortably in the USA.
The same could be said of any recent president.
the CIA had Jamil Mahuad's name spelled two different ways, popular opinion is it's "Mahuad" (11,300 vs. 307 pages in google). I hope Mr. Mahuad or Mahaud agrees.
Reference moved from article page. olivier 12:05, 10 Aug 2003 (UTC)
This article contains information from the CIA World Factbook 2000 and the U.S. Department of State website.
The national motto of Ecuador, Libertad y Orden is translated as The peace and wellbeing, the glory and triumph. But doesn't Libertad y Orden mean Freedom and Order or something to that extent? Or does Ecuador have another motto and is the translation correct? Aecis 13:48, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
The motto of Ecuador is "El Ecuador ha sido, es, y será país amazónico." (Ecuador has been, is, and will be a country of the Amazon.) I'm not sure if that was changed after relatively recent resolution of territorial issues with Peru.
Hi,
I've uploaded a few photos taken by Mazbln to the Wikimedia Commons. Take a look: Commons:Category:Ecuador -- I would appreciate it if someone could go through them and add relevant ones to this and other articles.-- Eloquence * 04:37, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)
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The lower one would, of course, be reduced, but could be clicked to enlarge it. Kelisi 03:11, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I prefer the lower Kelisi version, -- SqueakBox 03:21, Apr 2, 2005 (UTC)
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I think the culture heading should be changed to culture and sport
Then the main national sports of Ecuador could be listed (soccer and volleyball?) Szczels 15:17, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
Such as information on points of interest, the conflict with Perú, geography, etc.
Why did Ecuador start using the dollar? Is it true? -- Revolución ( talk) 23:59, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
Yes, it is true. On January 17th, 2000, Dr. Jamil Mahuad, then President of Ecuador, announced a banking holiday and that Ecuador would assume the US dollar as its currency. The exchange rate was pegged at 25,000 Ecuadorian sucres per 1 USD. All deposits in savings accounts above $500 had 50% frozen for one year. The Ecuadorian Central Bank ceased producing Sucres and all commercial banks in the country began cashing all cheques, paying withdrawals in USD at the fixed exchange rate. All Sucres that were deposited were then deposited into the Central Bank at the fixed exchange rate and then destroyed. The Central Bank concentrated on importing bills and coins from the US.
If the English form of España is Spain, and Spain is used widely by English speakers, why isn't "Equator" used as the name of Ecuador by English speakers? -- Shultz 04:54, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
What is the main language of Ecuador
I speak Spanish, and I've always claled the Galapagos Islands "islas Galápagos". I've never heard "Archipelago de Colón".
Jehovah's Witnesses do not count membership according to the number in attendance at the yearly Memorial. They count membership according to active publishers (although, technically only the publishers who are baptized as Jehovah's Witnesses are actually members). I am correcting the statistic to use current 2005 data from Watchtower February 1, 2006 issue, which showed average publishers as 50,843. I also removed the POV qualifier "rapidly" from the context. Respectfully, -- Evident 00:47, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
I am totally confused about the size of Ecuador: The written text tells me 272,045km², the table shows only 199,235km² and the comparison listing in 1E11m²shows a size of 283,560 km² So who can help me in finding the correct size? A confused teacher, Brigitte
Hi,
I am a Year 7 student (12 years old) in Melbourne, Australia. I need to know, as part of a Geography assignmnet, if there are any Ecuadorians living in Melbourne or Sydney. I am sure there must be many. I also need to know what their lives as migrants to Australian are like, how they keep in touch with other Ecuadorians in both Australia and Ecuadore. If any one has any iinformation or ideas I would be very grateful.
Hi, I am also wanting to know the same question. I am living in Australia and i would also like to know the same question.
Signed: Madmatt2314
the country ecuador is a place where toyurist love to visit because of the galapagos islands
I have a question for ecuadorians here: Ive been watching the world cup in Germany and I really loved the Ecuador team. Well, I came here to learn more about the country and I found it weird to find out that blacks are just a very small minority, when the national team is almost completely made out of blacks. I found that strange, so I ask you are they really that few, or do they do like in other latin american countries and declare themselves metistzos, not black? I'd appreciate an answer and good luck with england, hope you'll beat them...
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16:33, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
As an Ecuadorean I can tell you that Mestizos is a huge percentage of the country, we are talking above 90%, then you have african-americans (no idea if that term applies outside the US) and caucasians. By no means is the country split up in the same way the soccer team is, I imagine its something like sports in the US where african-americas clearly dominate almost every sport yet they are only a small percetange of the population. In Ecuador there are two regions that are mostly comprised by black people, one is Esmeraldas, and the other is the Chota valley, I think as many as 6 of the national team players came from Chota.
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Why is Ecuador being vandalized like this? Does anyone know? 68.17.237.177 ( talk) 23:01, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
Jaime Valencia is a well known painter - indigenous movement. He should be added to the main page as a indigenous movement painter. He has won numerous national awards for his artwork and even sculpted the facade of the Casa de Cultura.
Thank you for your consideration.
-Banchis13 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Banchis13 ( talk • contribs) 03:37, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
The population under poverty line 38%, not 50 (half) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.158.106.35 ( talk) 12:32, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
it was over 58% in 1990 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.175.19.119 ( talk) 15:55, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Copying discussion from User_talk:Blupper92
Fellow contributor User:Hilbert137 implies on deleting a paragraph that is not about Ronnie Nader, which i have neither justified, nor supported. The paragraph the section signals is Ecuadorian Civilian Space Agency not Ronnie Nader.
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You should not place a comment thinking for me, that disvalidates the neutrality of an argument, especially when it clearly doesn't claim my argument.-- Blupper92 ( talk) 06:07, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
Would the user who keeps deleting the etymology section please explain why exactly they keep removing it? Other articles have it and is an important part of country articles in order to better explain the meaning of the country's name.-- MarshalN20 | Talk 00:09, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
"Higher oil prices at the beginning of the 21st century allowed the Ecuadorian economy to recover, which has reduced poverty substantially since then." This line within the Economy section of the article requires a citation. There is nothing to show that oil revenues within Ecuador have "reduced poverty substantially" since the beginning of the 21st century, or at all for that matter. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.10.57.234 ( talk) 01:45, 12 February 2010 (UTC) One way that oil revenues reduced poverty was through the creation of COFIEC (Compania Financiera Ecuatoriana). A finance company founded by Dr Jose Antoñio Correa to reinvest and diversify oil revenues in other economic sectors. This was not a non profit or NGO but did contribute significantly to the diversification of Ecuador's economy and non dependance on one source of ingress. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Surgicus ( talk • contribs) 22:22, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
This article has several issues with it including but not limited to:
and more...please let me know if you need more issues on my talk. Thanks, Griffinofwales ( talk) 19:19, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
Please correct, the surface of Ecuador is 256.360 Km2. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.42.15.33 ( talk) 23:57, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
This article is beginning to more closely resemble a tourist brochure than an encyclopaedia. I reckon that at least half of the pictures should be culled, and half of the remainder reduced in size, but when I tried to be bold and do so, it was reverted with no explanation. Some sections are appallingly unbalanced at the moment, action needs to be taken: which photos are useful for illustrating the article? Kevin McE ( talk) 06:13, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
(before we start getting into 3rr territory) I hadn't noticed that the earlier reference to Olympic sports had disappeared, and a rementioning of Pérez' medals is appropriate. But if we are going to mention his non-medal Olympic acheivements, should we not be mentioning everyone else's? And I do not believe that other awards given to him are relevant this article, although they should of course be at his own article. Kevin McE ( talk) 11:54, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
The HDI is incorrect in the intro section (should be 0.695, high). See tables for the HDI index.
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Done Fixed, and also moved over the reference that was in the infobox. Thanks!
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Ecuador offers political asylum to Julian Assange (wikileaks) after Interpol issues warrant for his arrest, December 1, 2010. http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/interpol-issues-global-arrest-warrant-for-julian-assange-20101201-18fw7.html?from=smh_sb
Let's include this in the first paragraph.
Stringfoto ( talk) 00:38, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
Under the Lit section there is a picture of Juan Montalvo. The decription is "Juan Montalvo, Ambato" with a link to his page as well as a link to Ambato. HOWEVER, the link to Ambato leads to a disambig page instead of directly to the article for that city. Please correct! Thanks. Joshualatos ( talk) 20:52, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
According to the CIA profile, whites only account for 7% of the population NOT 16%. I have changed it, I hope it stays that way. - Rocco, 5:30 30 June 09.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/EC.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.234.102.185 ( talk) 05:31, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
As Rocco says, the World Factbook gives
and those are the values I'm reverting it to. (Yes, it was changed again.) Anyone wanting different figures needs to provide a reference. -- Thinking of England ( talk) 01:12, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
A "first hand experience" is not enough to write an article about any country, its difficult to understand from outside because most of european countries have more or less the same etnic origins or population, but this is a different case because in a multicultural country like Ecuador you can find different mixes, dependig wich zone you are for example at central mountains (andes) obviously you will find more indigenous mixing because this area was populated by many of them, if you go to coast cities as Guayaquil, some areas of Manabi, or Cuenca at south you will find more white mixing, at many degrees as well, dependig wich zone, if you go to esmeraldas at northern coast you will find an 80 % black people, if you go to the amazonia you will find different people inclusive many exotic indigenous living in their natural state, isit difficult explain the infinite mixings you can find inside this small country, personally i find it and interesting natural experiment all this different people living togheter when at many developed countries is difficult even with modern laws accept and live between different kind of people, i hope my idea can be understood and sorry about my english :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.25.197.120 ( talk) 04:00, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
Most of the population of Ecuador is mixed race as the World Factbook shows. However, the CIA WorldFactbook is generally considered to be a poor and inaccurate source (though far better than unsourced numbers or guesses). All of my professors in undergraduate and graduate school list the WorldFactbook as source #2 that may never, ever be used in a paper due to inaccuracy...Wikipedia is of course #1. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.254.221.202 ( talk) 19:41, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
The main article says that the 1960s were a time of military intervention. Maybe this could be explained a little bit better. Were there wildcat strikes that required military intervention so buildings were kept secure? I am guessing that import/export problems reared their ugly head at a time like this. Was the military called upon to prevent dockworkers from causing problems with boats? Were railroads being sabotaged? What was the name of the general that authorized the intervention? 216.99.201.76 ( talk) 07:27, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
For a further picture, and a clear view read
José María Velasco Ibarra, and
Philip Agee —Preceding
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About dollarization in Ecuador, was dollarization good or bad for Ecuador? Agre22 ( talk) 00:44, 2 December 2009 (UTC)agre22
I'm ecuadorian, and son to an historian / archaeologist. I have been studying my country's history since 1998. First of all, it should be mentioned that Valdivia pottery is the most ancient in all Americas. And that merchant-sailors from the Manta culture travelled as far away as Mexico and Chile, stablishing one of the longest trade routes in the ancient world. Finally, a lot of modern days vegetables where first domesticated in the region including Ecuador, south Colombia and northern Peru, including beans, peppers, pumpkins, papayas, pineapples, and others.
Second, modern history has concluded that there was never a "confederation called the Shyris". The Shyris were created by an imaginative colonial priest, and there is no historical or archaeological record to sustain his tale. Please refer to the work of modern historians like Enrique Ayala Mora.
As for the Incas, they never took control of the whole country. They stablished themselves in the southern and central highlands of Ecuador, maintained a continous war in the north (when spaniards arrived, the caranqui-cayambis still had control of a lot of the region), made agreements with the powerful merchant cultures of the coast, and tried without luck to get a foothold in the amazon. In the north, Incas presence was of 50 years only.
Finally, a bether description of modern day politics is needed. Ecuador has one of the strongest indigenous and farmers movements in the americas, but they are not the only reason for the fall of 3 presidents in the last years. There is high degree of political and democratic consciousness in the population, with the 2008 constitution as one of the products of it. A brief description of the problem by an expert on the subject could help a lot.
Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Javier Carrera ( talk • contribs) 15:39, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
As for the incas, within the paragraph i think to the benefit of your argument, it says the incas gained expansion loosely. More like city states, and not conquered. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.14.135.51 ( talk) 18:15, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
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There was a population Census recently and the results are different from the infobox and the rest of the article, they should be changed. Source is the national census office. http://www.inec.gob.ec/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.218.30.165 ( talk) 01:00, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Guayaquil 2´200.000 Quito 1´600.000 Cuenca 330.000 Sto Domingo 300.000 Machala 240.000 Durán 230.000 Portoviejo 220.000 Manta 210.000 Loja 185.000 Ambato 179.000 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.46.79.223 ( talk) 17:23, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
The edit links for the largest cities in Ecuador box was going to the wrong place. I tried to fix it by making it go directly to the article, I'm not sure if it'd be better if there just was no edit links (and if so, I have no idea how to do that). Anyways, I thought I'd leave a note so that you folks who probably know about such things better then me might be able to sort it out better. Cheers. Bawolff ( talk) 19:29, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
Guayaquil 2´280.000, Quito 1´620.000, Cuenca 330.000, Santo Domingo 305.000, Machala 240.000, Portoviejo 225.000, Loja 185.000 and Ambato 179.000 habitants — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.42.108.163 ( talk) 19:23, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
I hope that an expert can volunteer to edit the article so that the proper demonym is used everywhere. I see Ecuadorean, Ecuadorian, and Ecuadoran - they can't all be right, can they? BrianWilloughby ( talk) 06:02, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Update: Thanks, Southamerica2010, for the Merrian Webster reference. It seems that all three demonyms are, indeed, correct. BrianWilloughby ( talk) 11:06, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
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The section that describes the September 30, 2010 incident does not reflect the majoritary position of a coup d'etat. It reflects a minority position with lots of facts not being mentioned. It is in fact a coup d'etat attemp because many participants wanted to take over the government, especially minority oposition leaders. Many people went to the streets to defend the democratic government. It was a misinformation that it was a salary bussiness even though it was the tool used to uprise the military and the police. http://globalvoices.org/2010/09/30/ecuador-police-strike-denounced-as-attempt-to-destabilize-country/ http://www.hrw.org/world-report-2011/ecuador http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article1927 http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/5739
Even though it is an authoritarian government, it has support from most of the population because it oposes the high income 1% of the oligrarchy. Most of the middle class (which are a minority) support the oligarchy. That is the reason for the misinformation. The currently stated facts on that part of the article have no verifiable sources. Quiliro ( talk) 20:06, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
This is a long and old debate in Ecuador. 18th century priest Padre Velasco invented the story of a big Shyri confederation, that no sources before him ever mention. 20th century official history supported the tale as real, as part of nationalistic notions taught in schools, until it became common knowledge. But late 20th century historians, based on scientific research, demonstrated that there was never a Shyri confederation or any sort of centralized power of that size in pre - incan Ecuador. There are no conquest or colonial records on it, nor any archaeological data to support the theory.
On the other hand, there is enough data to support a different, more realistic version of political organization during the time of the Inca invasion of the northern ecuadorian highlands. There was a lose alliance of several peoples (Caranqui, Cayambi, Cochasqui and others) that opposed Inca rule near Quito, until the Spanish conquest.
I recommend to research the works of historians of the "Nueva Historia" movement, as Enrique Ayala Mora, and change this part of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Javier Carrera ( talk • contribs) 12:24, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
According to the last census in my country the ethnic are groups =
Mestizo 71.9%
Montubio 7.4%
Afroecuadorian 7.2%
Amerindian 7%
White 6.1%
others 0.4%
http://www.eluniverso.com/2011/09/02/1/1356/poblacion-pais-joven-mestiza-dice-censo-inec.html
It is information from a newpaper, INEC is the a governmental institute which is in charge of the population statistics of Ecuador I can not see why this information is wrong I am pretty sure that us the Ecuadorians know better our country than any other people or institution in the world — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.136.155.85 ( talk) 03:21, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
The transcription looks broad (phonemic) but the brackets suggest it's narrow. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.189.103.145 ( talk) 16:44, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/ecuador-says-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-is-seeking-asylum-at-its-embassy-in-london/2012/06/19/gJQAOyENoV_story.html Should we add something to the article on Julian Assange? I couldn't find a good place to edit it in — Preceding unsigned comment added by Teamcoltra ( talk • contribs) 02:55, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
Is there some reason not to use standard sizes for all the photos? Kendall-K1 ( talk) 21:15, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
I can't find anything about radio, TV and newspapers in Ecuador in this article. -- 178.1.31.98 ( talk) 06:22, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi! It would be great if you could create this article: Tourism in Ecuador!
Perhaps you can draw some inspiration from Tourism in Brazil and Tourism in Germany. :) Use proper sources! Thanks & all the best, Horst-schlaemma ( talk) 23:21, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
I came across the short article Regions of Ecuador, which expands (only slightly) on the four regions described in the Geography section. Can that information be merged into this article? Or are there plans to expands the Regions article? AtHomeIn神戸 ( talk) 00:41, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
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Too tired to do the research to correct this, but in the 3rd paragraph there is this obviously wrong sentence:
In reflection of the country's rich cultural heritage, the historical centers of Quito and Cuenca, the third-largest city, were each declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site was also declared a World Heritage Site in 1999 as an outstanding example of a planned, inland Spanish-style colonial city in the Americas. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.250.44.218 ( talk) 09:40, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
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This sentence uses racial terms that are obsolete: The legacy of both empires is reflected in Ecuador's ethnically diverse population, with most of its 15.2 million people being mestizos, followed by large minorities of European, Amerindian, and African descendants.
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Does the one sentence worth of information about power outlets need to be in the article, let alone in its own section? I want to move it somewhere else, but I'm not sure where. Steele W. Farnsworth Talk 22:01, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
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Can someone write something about Ecuadorian volleyball which I think is more of a community occasion than US volleyball... See Kennington Park in London... Szczels 18:54, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
The right name's JAMIL MAHUAD and he was responsible of the biggest and worst economical crisis of our country, a corrupt politician who robbed millions of USD together with his "friends", ledding our country into an even deeper status of poverty. He lives covered by a nice and confortable "Political Refugee" agreement in Costa Rica.
It is my understanding that Mahuad lives confortably in the USA.
The same could be said of any recent president.
the CIA had Jamil Mahuad's name spelled two different ways, popular opinion is it's "Mahuad" (11,300 vs. 307 pages in google). I hope Mr. Mahuad or Mahaud agrees.
Reference moved from article page. olivier 12:05, 10 Aug 2003 (UTC)
This article contains information from the CIA World Factbook 2000 and the U.S. Department of State website.
The national motto of Ecuador, Libertad y Orden is translated as The peace and wellbeing, the glory and triumph. But doesn't Libertad y Orden mean Freedom and Order or something to that extent? Or does Ecuador have another motto and is the translation correct? Aecis 13:48, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
The motto of Ecuador is "El Ecuador ha sido, es, y será país amazónico." (Ecuador has been, is, and will be a country of the Amazon.) I'm not sure if that was changed after relatively recent resolution of territorial issues with Peru.
Hi,
I've uploaded a few photos taken by Mazbln to the Wikimedia Commons. Take a look: Commons:Category:Ecuador -- I would appreciate it if someone could go through them and add relevant ones to this and other articles.-- Eloquence * 04:37, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)
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The lower one would, of course, be reduced, but could be clicked to enlarge it. Kelisi 03:11, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I prefer the lower Kelisi version, -- SqueakBox 03:21, Apr 2, 2005 (UTC)
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I think the culture heading should be changed to culture and sport
Then the main national sports of Ecuador could be listed (soccer and volleyball?) Szczels 15:17, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
Such as information on points of interest, the conflict with Perú, geography, etc.
Why did Ecuador start using the dollar? Is it true? -- Revolución ( talk) 23:59, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
Yes, it is true. On January 17th, 2000, Dr. Jamil Mahuad, then President of Ecuador, announced a banking holiday and that Ecuador would assume the US dollar as its currency. The exchange rate was pegged at 25,000 Ecuadorian sucres per 1 USD. All deposits in savings accounts above $500 had 50% frozen for one year. The Ecuadorian Central Bank ceased producing Sucres and all commercial banks in the country began cashing all cheques, paying withdrawals in USD at the fixed exchange rate. All Sucres that were deposited were then deposited into the Central Bank at the fixed exchange rate and then destroyed. The Central Bank concentrated on importing bills and coins from the US.
If the English form of España is Spain, and Spain is used widely by English speakers, why isn't "Equator" used as the name of Ecuador by English speakers? -- Shultz 04:54, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
What is the main language of Ecuador
I speak Spanish, and I've always claled the Galapagos Islands "islas Galápagos". I've never heard "Archipelago de Colón".
Jehovah's Witnesses do not count membership according to the number in attendance at the yearly Memorial. They count membership according to active publishers (although, technically only the publishers who are baptized as Jehovah's Witnesses are actually members). I am correcting the statistic to use current 2005 data from Watchtower February 1, 2006 issue, which showed average publishers as 50,843. I also removed the POV qualifier "rapidly" from the context. Respectfully, -- Evident 00:47, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
I am totally confused about the size of Ecuador: The written text tells me 272,045km², the table shows only 199,235km² and the comparison listing in 1E11m²shows a size of 283,560 km² So who can help me in finding the correct size? A confused teacher, Brigitte
Hi,
I am a Year 7 student (12 years old) in Melbourne, Australia. I need to know, as part of a Geography assignmnet, if there are any Ecuadorians living in Melbourne or Sydney. I am sure there must be many. I also need to know what their lives as migrants to Australian are like, how they keep in touch with other Ecuadorians in both Australia and Ecuadore. If any one has any iinformation or ideas I would be very grateful.
Hi, I am also wanting to know the same question. I am living in Australia and i would also like to know the same question.
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the country ecuador is a place where toyurist love to visit because of the galapagos islands
I have a question for ecuadorians here: Ive been watching the world cup in Germany and I really loved the Ecuador team. Well, I came here to learn more about the country and I found it weird to find out that blacks are just a very small minority, when the national team is almost completely made out of blacks. I found that strange, so I ask you are they really that few, or do they do like in other latin american countries and declare themselves metistzos, not black? I'd appreciate an answer and good luck with england, hope you'll beat them...
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As an Ecuadorean I can tell you that Mestizos is a huge percentage of the country, we are talking above 90%, then you have african-americans (no idea if that term applies outside the US) and caucasians. By no means is the country split up in the same way the soccer team is, I imagine its something like sports in the US where african-americas clearly dominate almost every sport yet they are only a small percetange of the population. In Ecuador there are two regions that are mostly comprised by black people, one is Esmeraldas, and the other is the Chota valley, I think as many as 6 of the national team players came from Chota.
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Why is Ecuador being vandalized like this? Does anyone know? 68.17.237.177 ( talk) 23:01, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
Jaime Valencia is a well known painter - indigenous movement. He should be added to the main page as a indigenous movement painter. He has won numerous national awards for his artwork and even sculpted the facade of the Casa de Cultura.
Thank you for your consideration.
-Banchis13 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Banchis13 ( talk • contribs) 03:37, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
The population under poverty line 38%, not 50 (half) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.158.106.35 ( talk) 12:32, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
it was over 58% in 1990 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.175.19.119 ( talk) 15:55, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Copying discussion from User_talk:Blupper92
Fellow contributor User:Hilbert137 implies on deleting a paragraph that is not about Ronnie Nader, which i have neither justified, nor supported. The paragraph the section signals is Ecuadorian Civilian Space Agency not Ronnie Nader.
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You should not place a comment thinking for me, that disvalidates the neutrality of an argument, especially when it clearly doesn't claim my argument.-- Blupper92 ( talk) 06:07, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
Would the user who keeps deleting the etymology section please explain why exactly they keep removing it? Other articles have it and is an important part of country articles in order to better explain the meaning of the country's name.-- MarshalN20 | Talk 00:09, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
"Higher oil prices at the beginning of the 21st century allowed the Ecuadorian economy to recover, which has reduced poverty substantially since then." This line within the Economy section of the article requires a citation. There is nothing to show that oil revenues within Ecuador have "reduced poverty substantially" since the beginning of the 21st century, or at all for that matter. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.10.57.234 ( talk) 01:45, 12 February 2010 (UTC) One way that oil revenues reduced poverty was through the creation of COFIEC (Compania Financiera Ecuatoriana). A finance company founded by Dr Jose Antoñio Correa to reinvest and diversify oil revenues in other economic sectors. This was not a non profit or NGO but did contribute significantly to the diversification of Ecuador's economy and non dependance on one source of ingress. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Surgicus ( talk • contribs) 22:22, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
This article has several issues with it including but not limited to:
and more...please let me know if you need more issues on my talk. Thanks, Griffinofwales ( talk) 19:19, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
Please correct, the surface of Ecuador is 256.360 Km2. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.42.15.33 ( talk) 23:57, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
This article is beginning to more closely resemble a tourist brochure than an encyclopaedia. I reckon that at least half of the pictures should be culled, and half of the remainder reduced in size, but when I tried to be bold and do so, it was reverted with no explanation. Some sections are appallingly unbalanced at the moment, action needs to be taken: which photos are useful for illustrating the article? Kevin McE ( talk) 06:13, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
(before we start getting into 3rr territory) I hadn't noticed that the earlier reference to Olympic sports had disappeared, and a rementioning of Pérez' medals is appropriate. But if we are going to mention his non-medal Olympic acheivements, should we not be mentioning everyone else's? And I do not believe that other awards given to him are relevant this article, although they should of course be at his own article. Kevin McE ( talk) 11:54, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
The HDI is incorrect in the intro section (should be 0.695, high). See tables for the HDI index.
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Done Fixed, and also moved over the reference that was in the infobox. Thanks!
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Ecuador offers political asylum to Julian Assange (wikileaks) after Interpol issues warrant for his arrest, December 1, 2010. http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/interpol-issues-global-arrest-warrant-for-julian-assange-20101201-18fw7.html?from=smh_sb
Let's include this in the first paragraph.
Stringfoto ( talk) 00:38, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
Under the Lit section there is a picture of Juan Montalvo. The decription is "Juan Montalvo, Ambato" with a link to his page as well as a link to Ambato. HOWEVER, the link to Ambato leads to a disambig page instead of directly to the article for that city. Please correct! Thanks. Joshualatos ( talk) 20:52, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
According to the CIA profile, whites only account for 7% of the population NOT 16%. I have changed it, I hope it stays that way. - Rocco, 5:30 30 June 09.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/EC.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.234.102.185 ( talk) 05:31, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
As Rocco says, the World Factbook gives
and those are the values I'm reverting it to. (Yes, it was changed again.) Anyone wanting different figures needs to provide a reference. -- Thinking of England ( talk) 01:12, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
A "first hand experience" is not enough to write an article about any country, its difficult to understand from outside because most of european countries have more or less the same etnic origins or population, but this is a different case because in a multicultural country like Ecuador you can find different mixes, dependig wich zone you are for example at central mountains (andes) obviously you will find more indigenous mixing because this area was populated by many of them, if you go to coast cities as Guayaquil, some areas of Manabi, or Cuenca at south you will find more white mixing, at many degrees as well, dependig wich zone, if you go to esmeraldas at northern coast you will find an 80 % black people, if you go to the amazonia you will find different people inclusive many exotic indigenous living in their natural state, isit difficult explain the infinite mixings you can find inside this small country, personally i find it and interesting natural experiment all this different people living togheter when at many developed countries is difficult even with modern laws accept and live between different kind of people, i hope my idea can be understood and sorry about my english :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.25.197.120 ( talk) 04:00, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
Most of the population of Ecuador is mixed race as the World Factbook shows. However, the CIA WorldFactbook is generally considered to be a poor and inaccurate source (though far better than unsourced numbers or guesses). All of my professors in undergraduate and graduate school list the WorldFactbook as source #2 that may never, ever be used in a paper due to inaccuracy...Wikipedia is of course #1. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.254.221.202 ( talk) 19:41, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
The main article says that the 1960s were a time of military intervention. Maybe this could be explained a little bit better. Were there wildcat strikes that required military intervention so buildings were kept secure? I am guessing that import/export problems reared their ugly head at a time like this. Was the military called upon to prevent dockworkers from causing problems with boats? Were railroads being sabotaged? What was the name of the general that authorized the intervention? 216.99.201.76 ( talk) 07:27, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
For a further picture, and a clear view read
José María Velasco Ibarra, and
Philip Agee —Preceding
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About dollarization in Ecuador, was dollarization good or bad for Ecuador? Agre22 ( talk) 00:44, 2 December 2009 (UTC)agre22
I'm ecuadorian, and son to an historian / archaeologist. I have been studying my country's history since 1998. First of all, it should be mentioned that Valdivia pottery is the most ancient in all Americas. And that merchant-sailors from the Manta culture travelled as far away as Mexico and Chile, stablishing one of the longest trade routes in the ancient world. Finally, a lot of modern days vegetables where first domesticated in the region including Ecuador, south Colombia and northern Peru, including beans, peppers, pumpkins, papayas, pineapples, and others.
Second, modern history has concluded that there was never a "confederation called the Shyris". The Shyris were created by an imaginative colonial priest, and there is no historical or archaeological record to sustain his tale. Please refer to the work of modern historians like Enrique Ayala Mora.
As for the Incas, they never took control of the whole country. They stablished themselves in the southern and central highlands of Ecuador, maintained a continous war in the north (when spaniards arrived, the caranqui-cayambis still had control of a lot of the region), made agreements with the powerful merchant cultures of the coast, and tried without luck to get a foothold in the amazon. In the north, Incas presence was of 50 years only.
Finally, a bether description of modern day politics is needed. Ecuador has one of the strongest indigenous and farmers movements in the americas, but they are not the only reason for the fall of 3 presidents in the last years. There is high degree of political and democratic consciousness in the population, with the 2008 constitution as one of the products of it. A brief description of the problem by an expert on the subject could help a lot.
Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Javier Carrera ( talk • contribs) 15:39, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
As for the incas, within the paragraph i think to the benefit of your argument, it says the incas gained expansion loosely. More like city states, and not conquered. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.14.135.51 ( talk) 18:15, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
I have added automatic archiving to this talk page. Currently, it is set to move all threads older than 90 days to an archive page which will remain linked here. This allows people who want to look back to old conversations to be able to easily find them without having to go through the history, while still keeping this page focused only on current discussions. If anyone doesn't want archiving on, let me know and I can undo it, although it's pretty standard practice once talk pages reach a decent length. Qwyrxian ( talk) 23:28, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
There was a population Census recently and the results are different from the infobox and the rest of the article, they should be changed. Source is the national census office. http://www.inec.gob.ec/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.218.30.165 ( talk) 01:00, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Guayaquil 2´200.000 Quito 1´600.000 Cuenca 330.000 Sto Domingo 300.000 Machala 240.000 Durán 230.000 Portoviejo 220.000 Manta 210.000 Loja 185.000 Ambato 179.000 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.46.79.223 ( talk) 17:23, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
The edit links for the largest cities in Ecuador box was going to the wrong place. I tried to fix it by making it go directly to the article, I'm not sure if it'd be better if there just was no edit links (and if so, I have no idea how to do that). Anyways, I thought I'd leave a note so that you folks who probably know about such things better then me might be able to sort it out better. Cheers. Bawolff ( talk) 19:29, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
Guayaquil 2´280.000, Quito 1´620.000, Cuenca 330.000, Santo Domingo 305.000, Machala 240.000, Portoviejo 225.000, Loja 185.000 and Ambato 179.000 habitants — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.42.108.163 ( talk) 19:23, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
I hope that an expert can volunteer to edit the article so that the proper demonym is used everywhere. I see Ecuadorean, Ecuadorian, and Ecuadoran - they can't all be right, can they? BrianWilloughby ( talk) 06:02, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Update: Thanks, Southamerica2010, for the Merrian Webster reference. It seems that all three demonyms are, indeed, correct. BrianWilloughby ( talk) 11:06, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
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The section that describes the September 30, 2010 incident does not reflect the majoritary position of a coup d'etat. It reflects a minority position with lots of facts not being mentioned. It is in fact a coup d'etat attemp because many participants wanted to take over the government, especially minority oposition leaders. Many people went to the streets to defend the democratic government. It was a misinformation that it was a salary bussiness even though it was the tool used to uprise the military and the police. http://globalvoices.org/2010/09/30/ecuador-police-strike-denounced-as-attempt-to-destabilize-country/ http://www.hrw.org/world-report-2011/ecuador http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article1927 http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/5739
Even though it is an authoritarian government, it has support from most of the population because it oposes the high income 1% of the oligrarchy. Most of the middle class (which are a minority) support the oligarchy. That is the reason for the misinformation. The currently stated facts on that part of the article have no verifiable sources. Quiliro ( talk) 20:06, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
This is a long and old debate in Ecuador. 18th century priest Padre Velasco invented the story of a big Shyri confederation, that no sources before him ever mention. 20th century official history supported the tale as real, as part of nationalistic notions taught in schools, until it became common knowledge. But late 20th century historians, based on scientific research, demonstrated that there was never a Shyri confederation or any sort of centralized power of that size in pre - incan Ecuador. There are no conquest or colonial records on it, nor any archaeological data to support the theory.
On the other hand, there is enough data to support a different, more realistic version of political organization during the time of the Inca invasion of the northern ecuadorian highlands. There was a lose alliance of several peoples (Caranqui, Cayambi, Cochasqui and others) that opposed Inca rule near Quito, until the Spanish conquest.
I recommend to research the works of historians of the "Nueva Historia" movement, as Enrique Ayala Mora, and change this part of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Javier Carrera ( talk • contribs) 12:24, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
According to the last census in my country the ethnic are groups =
Mestizo 71.9%
Montubio 7.4%
Afroecuadorian 7.2%
Amerindian 7%
White 6.1%
others 0.4%
http://www.eluniverso.com/2011/09/02/1/1356/poblacion-pais-joven-mestiza-dice-censo-inec.html
It is information from a newpaper, INEC is the a governmental institute which is in charge of the population statistics of Ecuador I can not see why this information is wrong I am pretty sure that us the Ecuadorians know better our country than any other people or institution in the world — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.136.155.85 ( talk) 03:21, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
The transcription looks broad (phonemic) but the brackets suggest it's narrow. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.189.103.145 ( talk) 16:44, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/ecuador-says-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-is-seeking-asylum-at-its-embassy-in-london/2012/06/19/gJQAOyENoV_story.html Should we add something to the article on Julian Assange? I couldn't find a good place to edit it in — Preceding unsigned comment added by Teamcoltra ( talk • contribs) 02:55, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
Is there some reason not to use standard sizes for all the photos? Kendall-K1 ( talk) 21:15, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
I can't find anything about radio, TV and newspapers in Ecuador in this article. -- 178.1.31.98 ( talk) 06:22, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi! It would be great if you could create this article: Tourism in Ecuador!
Perhaps you can draw some inspiration from Tourism in Brazil and Tourism in Germany. :) Use proper sources! Thanks & all the best, Horst-schlaemma ( talk) 23:21, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
I came across the short article Regions of Ecuador, which expands (only slightly) on the four regions described in the Geography section. Can that information be merged into this article? Or are there plans to expands the Regions article? AtHomeIn神戸 ( talk) 00:41, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
Uncited material that has been challenged, via deletion, can be restored -- but only in accord w/ wp:burden. -- Epeefleche ( talk) 05:30, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
Too tired to do the research to correct this, but in the 3rd paragraph there is this obviously wrong sentence:
In reflection of the country's rich cultural heritage, the historical centers of Quito and Cuenca, the third-largest city, were each declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site was also declared a World Heritage Site in 1999 as an outstanding example of a planned, inland Spanish-style colonial city in the Americas. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.250.44.218 ( talk) 09:40, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
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This sentence uses racial terms that are obsolete: The legacy of both empires is reflected in Ecuador's ethnically diverse population, with most of its 15.2 million people being mestizos, followed by large minorities of European, Amerindian, and African descendants.
Suggest changing to: The legacy of both empires is reflected in Ecuador's ethnically diverse population, as 15.2 million descendants from European, Amerindian, and African descendants, as well as the recent immigration from countries such as China, Lebanon, and Korea.
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Does the one sentence worth of information about power outlets need to be in the article, let alone in its own section? I want to move it somewhere else, but I'm not sure where. Steele W. Farnsworth Talk 22:01, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
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Fix the link in the sports section. It says xxx (x)|xxx]] it needs [[ at the start Sports Devotee ( talk) 00:25, 18 April 2016 (UTC)