Capital City: Quito with 1,619,800 Inhabitants
Largest City: Guayaquil with 2,286,800 Inhabitants
Population: 13,306,876
Religion: Roman Catholic 95%, Protestants 4%, Others 1%
Ethnic Groups: Mestizo (Mixed) 65%, Indigenous 25%, White 7%, Black 3%
Government: Presidential Republic
President: Rafael Correa
Independence Day: 10th of August, 1809
Area: 283,561 km2
Provinces: 24
Regions: Coast, Andes, Amazon, Galapagos Islands
Official Language: Spanish
Currency: US Dollar
Time Zone: UTC-5 Mainland, UTC-6 Galapagos Islands
Country Code: +593

-Guinea pig is a delicacy in Ecuador.
-Ecuador is the smallest country in the Andean highland.
-Ecuador is one of the top 10 mega-diverse hotspots in the world with its enormous amount of species of plants, insects, mammals etc.
-Ecuador was part of the Inka Empire and Quito was the capitol of the northern part.
-Chimborazo Volcano with its 6,267 meters or 20,561 feet is the highest top in Ecuador. It is also where you reach furthest out from the center of the earth and get closest to the sun in the world due its location on the equator.
-Quito is the second highest capital city in the world with 2,850 meters or 9,350 feet.
-Cotopaxi is one of the highest active volcanoes in the world with its 5,897 meters or 19,347 feet and the name means "Neck of the Moon in an Indigenous language.
-Officially Ecuador has 22 different languages where Quichua is the second biggest after Spanish with 9 varieties.
-In Ecuador it is typical to put popcorn in the soup.
-People in Ecuador don't like bills of $50 or $100 and even smaller bills of $10 or $20 gives you problems as nobody seems to have change.
-You find fresh fruit juice everywhere in Ecuador and this is something very important to them.
-The Panama hat comes from Ecuador.
-You can buy almost anything in the streets as they have a lot of vendors in Ecuador.
-Galapagos Islands was the first National Park in Ecuador and it is also the biggest marine National Park.
-You almost never flush down paper in the toilet as it will plug up the system. Exceptions are in some new buildings in bigger cities.
-Otavalo has one of the biggest Indigenous markets in Latin America on Saturdays. Sunday to Friday it is open but smaller.
-For New Year people make a full size doll that they call Ano Viejo, old year, that they burn up at midnight to get rid of everything bad that happened.
-Ecuador borders to Colombia in the north and Peru to the south and east.
-Ecuador's first and only female president, Rosalia Arteaga, stayed in office just one day.
-Because of its location on the equator day and night are 12 hours all year around so they don't use day light saving time in Ecuador.
-The traditional card game in Ecuador is called Cuarenta, 40, and before you understands the rules it feels like the other players are making up the rules as they go.
-In Ecuador you can find over 1,600 species of birds.
-There are only 3 species of vampire bats in the world and they are all found in Ecuador.
-Ecuador is one of the biggest exporter in the world of bananas and roses.
-There are estimated to be more than 25,000 species of plants in Ecuador compared to about 17,000 in the whole of North America.
-Ecuador has most species of frogs in the world.
-Ecuador has most species of mammals per square meter in the world with its 369 species.