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Capital city: QUITO
Population: 12.156.608
Surface: 283.560 Km²
Time zone:: -6h with respect to Italy; - 7h in case of Daylight Saving Time
Spoken Languages: Spanish
Religions: Catholic
Currency: Sucre (ECS), but USD is actually used
Préfix: 00593
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Tourism in Ecuador has been constantly growing during the last 10 years. The number of foreigners went from 627,000 in 200 to 850,000 in 2005 and over 1 million in 2008.(source: un.org)
Ecuador, like many other nations in Latin America, includes contrasting elements: charming natural beauties and metropolitan decay, hospitality of its peopled as well as guerrilla warfare and tourists kidnapping. Despite some negative aspects it is an interesting place and one of the most promising nations in the South-American continent.
The country is rich in natural resources including gold, silver and petrol, at the origin of numerous conflicts with surrounding countries, mainly Peru’. Moreover, it owns great geographical resources thanks to its diverse territory and offers the possibility to follow an itinerary from the beauty of Galapagos Islands, offering their unique heritage of plants and wildlife, to the blue and crystal clear coastline, up to the Sierra highlands with the capital Quito (at 2500 m sea-level), to the peaks of Andes and finally to the astonishing Amazonia Forest. (source: www.paesionline.it)
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