Capital: Quito – altitude of 2,850 m (9,200 ft)

Biggest cities: Guayaquil (3,750,000 inhabitants), Quito (2,700,000 inhabitants), Cuenca (715,000 inhabitants)

Population: approximately 15,000,000

Geographical Regions: The Andes mountain range, the Amazonian rain forest, the Pacific Coast, the Galapagos Islands

Area: 283,561 km²

Location/Borders: located right at the equator in the northwest of South America. Bordering Columbia in the North, Peru in theSouth and East, and the Pacific Ocean in the West 

Time Zone: GMT/UTC -5 hours (Galapagos Islands GMT/UTC -6 hours)

Ethnicity: 65% Mestizo (mixed Indigenous - Caucasian), 25% Indigenous, 10% Caucasian, 7% African, 3% Black

Languages: Spanish, native Quechua

Form of government: Unitary presidential republic (Current president: RafaelCorrea)

Currency: U.S. dollar

Voltage: 120V / 60Hz