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Article: Ecuador. (Factfile).(Brief Article)
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- Geographical
- Article date:
- November 1, 2001
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OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: Spanish
RELIGION: Christianity (95 per cent Roman Catholic)
POPULATION: 12.9 million Approximately 25 per cent are Amerindian; 55 per cent of Indian-Spanish extraction (mestizo); 10 per cent are white, nine per cent black, and one per cent other. Most people live in the lowland Costa region or in the Andean Sierra. The national average population density is the highest in South America, at 44 per sq km.
LOCATION: Ecuador straddles the equator, on the western coast of South America (Ecuador is Spanish for equator). It is bordered by Colombia to the north, Peru to the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one ...