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Ecuador

1 Following the battle, Ecuador joined Simón Bolívar's ________ - joining with modern day Colombia and Venezuela – only to become a republic in 1830.

2 Which of the following is an officially recognised ethnic group in Ecuador?

3 What is the population of Ecuador?

4 What is the capital of Ecuador?

5 What is the native name for Ecuador

6 What is the leader of Ecuador called?

7 What is the calling code of Ecuador?

8 ________, often referred to as índor, is particularly popular for mass participation.

9 The conservative Gabriel Garcia Moreno unified the country in the ________ with the support of the Roman Catholic Church.

10 Which of the following titles did Ecuador have?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the 2010 World Junior Squash Championships will be held from July 27 until August 1, in Quito, Ecuador?
  • suggested close relatives of the rare Ecuadorian rice rat Mindomys have included water rats, tree rats, and Caribbean giant rats?
  • one species of Dictyonema lichen is a powerful hallucinogen that is traditionally used by the Huaorani of the Amazon jungle of Ecuador to cast curses on their enemies?
  • the palm Aiphanes chiribogensis is considered to be vulnerable to extinction because none of the seven known populations lie within Ecuador's network of protected areas?
  • the rodents Thomasomys ucucha from Ecuador and Oxymycterus hucucha from Bolivia were both named after the local Quechua word for "mouse"?
  • under the 2002 Andean Trade Preference and Drug Eradication Act the United States eliminated tariffs on 6,300 products from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru?
  • the single known population of the Ecuadorian rodent Lagidium ahuacaense may contain only a few dozen individuals?
  • the citizens of Picoazá, Ecuador, elected foot powder as their mayor?
  • on January 8, 1956, five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the United States were speared to death after attempting to reach the Huaorani people of Ecuador in "Operation Auca"?
  • during her 2008 trip to Asia, the Ecuadorian tall ship Guayas took aboard an officer of the People's Liberation Army Navy for reefing training?
  • Imbabura is an inactive stratovolcano in northern Ecuador which is revered in local folklore as a protective parent?
  • Cuicocha is a crater lake in the Ecuadorian Andes which was created by a massive Phreatic eruption in the 11th century BC?
  • Ecuadorian archaeologist Jacinto Jijón y Caamaño believed that the Manteño civilization operated as a trading ring, like the Hanseatic League?
  • Leopoldo Benites, the President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1973, had served eight months in a jail in Ecuador?
  • Pasillo is the "national music" of Ecuador but originated from the Viennese Waltz?
  • charges of firebombing department stores against four Ecuadoreans were dismissed after the NYPD corroborated information first printed in articles by Paul L. Montgomery in The New York Times?
  • between November 1996 and 2001, 936 people left the parish of Baños in Cuenca Canton, Ecuador, and emigrated mostly to the United States?
  • Aiphanes bicornis, a palm species known only from two locations in Ecuador, is named for the notched tips of its leaves which are said to evoke the horns of an antelope?
  • 25 percent of the population of Ecuador is of indigenous heritage, while another 65 percent is of mixed indigenous and European heritage?
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