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This is a list of list of supermarket chains in Ecuador currently operating. As of May 2012, there are 390 supermarkets in Ecuador; 117 of them are located in Guayaquil and 78 are located in Quito .
4 April – Ecuador orders the expulsion of the Mexican ambassador Raquel Serur Smeke after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador makes comments deemed inappropriate on the effect of the Assassination of Fernando Villavicencio on the 2023 Ecuadorian general election.
The president of Ecuador (Spanish: Presidente del Ecuador), officially called the constitutional president of the Republic of Ecuador (Spanish: Presidente Constitucional de la República del Ecuador), [2] serves as the head of state and head of government of Ecuador. It is the highest political office in the country as the head of the executive ...
This “mestizaje” began in the sixteenth century where white colonizers began to mix with indigenous to “improve” the indigenous race. Ecuador’s historical background has left the country with a very stratified social environment. [32] This is the nucleus of the stratification of different social classes in Ecuador.
The Ecuadorian Navy (Spanish: Armada del Ecuador) is an Ecuadorian entity responsible for the surveillance and protection of national maritime territory and has a personnel of 9,400 [1] men to protect a coastline of 2,237 km which reaches far into the Pacific Ocean.
Ecuador was an original member of the block, founded by left-wing governments in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2008. Ecuador also asked UNASUR to return the headquarters building of the organization, based in its capital city, Quito. [64] In June 2019, Ecuador agreed to allow US military planes to operate from an airport on the Galapagos ...
Kingman was born in Loja, Ecuador on February 23, 1913. [1] His father, Edward Kingman, had moved to Ecuador from Newton, Connecticut. Kingman was the elder brother of journalist Nicolás Kingman Riofrío. Kingman first studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes, in Quito, [2] under Victor Mideros. [3]
The Andean condor is the national bird of Ecuador.. This is a list of the bird species recorded in Ecuador including those of the Galápagos Islands.The avifauna of Ecuador has 1666 confirmed species, of which eight are endemic to the mainland and 31 are endemic to the Galápagos.