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Ecuador has a total area of 283,520 km2 including the Galapagos Islands. Of this, Ecuador is bigger than Uruguay, Surinam, Guyana and French Guyana in South America.

The country has four main geographic regions:

Costa, or “the coast”: The coastal region consists of the provinces to the West of the Andean range - Esmeraldas, Guayas, Los Rios, Manabí, El Oro, Santa Elena. It is the country’s most fertile and productive land, and is the seat of the large banana exportation plantations of the companies Dole and Chiquita. This region is also where most of Ecuador’s rice crop is grown. The truly coastal provinces have active fisheries. The largest coastal city is Guayaquil.

Amazon, also known as Oriented, or “the east”: The oriented consists of the Amazon jungle provinces – Morona Santiago, Napo, Oreland, Pastaza, Sucumbíos, and Zamora-Chinchipe. This region is primarily made up of the huge Amazon national parks and Amerindian untouchable zones, which are vast stretches of land, set aside for the Amazon Amerindian tribes to continue living traditionally. It is also the area with the largest reserves of petroleum in Ecuador, and parts of the upper Amazon here have been extensively exploited by petroleum companies.

Ecuador’s capital is Quito, which is in the province of Pichincha in the Sierra region. Its largest city is Guayaquil, in the Guayas Province. Cotopaxi, which is just south of Quito, features one of the world’s highest active volcanoes. The top of Mount Chimborazo is considered to be the most distant point of the Earth’s surface from the center of the Earth, given the approximately ellipsoid shape of the planet.

 

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