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In Ecuador U.S. dollars are used. Some items such as food and drinks are usually cheap and good quality. Other items such as electronics are very expensive because they are imported from other countries

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Ecuador is an estimated 109,483  sq. meters

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Compared to U.S. states Ecuador is bigger than most of the eastern states

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Latitude: 1.8312° S

Longitude: 78.1834° W,

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16,976,590 people is the estimated amount of people living in Ecuador

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Visit Pichincha Mountain in the city Quito. You can use a cable car to get to the top and look at the city from above then enjoy the view

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Hot springs from the Papallacta Mountain

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Visit the Papallacta hot springs for soothing temperatures. Some pools are hotter than others and freezing pools are for dipping into then going into a hot pool to get an even better experience

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Visit a waterfall because they are nice and there are many of them located around ecuador. To visit these waterfalls is free

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Visit the Amazon River! Take a raft and cruise downstream and enjoy the relaxing sounds of animals, the green jungle, and the clear sky

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Fish soup with onions, tuna, yuca, tomatoes, cilantro, and on top has pickled onions with tomatoes

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A seafood soup with raw shrimp, onions, cilantro, chili and pepper

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Finalized in 1900, each color has a meaning

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*Yellow represents the land's fertility
*Blue represents the ocean resources and constant clear blue skies
*red represents the people who sacrificed themselves for independence

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other
foreign: 2.2
Quechua: 4.1
Spanish: 93

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other/none: 7
Jehovahs servants: 1.3
Protestants: 11.3
Roman Catholic: 80.4

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A gang fight occurred in one of Ecuador's jails where weapons such as firearms and explosives were used and the outcome left 68 dead. Alex Quiñónez, one of Ecuador's best sprinters, was shot dead in one of it's cities due to this crime rise. The president wants to strengthen security for the rise in crime and he even put soldiers to patrol the streets as Ecuador is in a state of emergency

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Hotels, shops, and restaurants benefit from all the tourists that come through Ecuador. Many crops are grown such as bananas and cocoa. Just off the coast the water is very rich in fish where they get most of it from. They manufacture lots of petroleum because the land has lots of it. Mining is very important because there is a lot of petroleum which is a major export.

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Ecuador's major exports include oil, bananas, cocoa, flowers, and shrimp

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Ecuadors climate varies from hot and humid in the low altitudes and in higher altitudes it is there is spring weather all year, but its colder the higher the altitude

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Ecuador's current leader is Guillermo Lasso and its current government is a republic