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INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ECUADOR

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Supreet Sahoo
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ECUADOR
  • Ecuador’s national tree is the cinchona tree which produces Quinine, the first drug ever used to avoid and treat malaria.
  • Ecuador is one of the two countries in South America that does not share a border with Brazil.
  • In 2008, Ecuador was the first country to officially recognise the rights of nature. Rather than treating nature as property, Ecuador recognises that nature has constitutional rights and has the “right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles.”
  • The summit of Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador’s highest mountain is the point on Earth closest to the sun. Due to the mountain’s location along the equatorial bulge, its summit is the farthest point from the Earth’s core. This also means that Ecuador is the closest country to space.
  • Ecuador is one of 17 mega diverse countries in the world and has the most biodiversity per square kilometre of any nation.
  • It is well known that Ecuador is named after the equator which runs through the country. It is in fact the only country in the world officially named after a geographical feature. 
  • The equator is widely promoted at the tourist attraction  Middle of the World City 26km north of the capital, Quito. This is supposed to be where one can stand with one foot in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern. Unfortunately, thanks to modern re-measurements the exact equator is said to lie 240 meters north of the marked line and monument. Doh!
  • Ecuador is the world’s largest exporter of bananas, accounting for up to 29% of all bananas exported in 2011.

 

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