Ecuador is an authentic Andes-destination that offers a diversity of cultures and landscapes on a small surface. Due to the short distances you can travel through Ecuador in a very comfortable way.
Highlights are: Quito: the capital, where the center is the richest all colonial art and architecture.

283,560 square km (including the Galapagos Islands).

Bordering the Pacific Ocean at the Equator, between Colombia and Peru.

The coastal plain, the inter-Andean Central Highlands, the flat-to-rolling eastern jungle and the Galapagos Archipel.

Tropical along the coast, becoming cooler inland and at higher elevations. Tropical and humid in the Amazonas Jungle.

12,920,092 (July 2000 est.) divided into Mestizo (65%), Indigenous (25%), Black 3% and others (7%).

Quito with a population close to 2,000,000 and located at 2850m of altitude.

Spanish

Catholic 95%

American Dolar