Territory : 283,560 square km (including the Galapagos Islands)

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

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

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

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

Lenguage : Spanish.

Religion : Catholic 95%

Money : American Dolar

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