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nouna republic in northwestern South America; became independent from Spain in 1822; the landscape is dominated by the Andes
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- galapagos a group of islands in the Pacific off South America; owned by Ecuador; known for unusual animal life
- sucre the basic unit of money in Ecuador; equal to 100 centavos
- ecuadorian a native or inhabitant of Ecuador
- ecuadorian of or relating to or characteristic of Ecuador or its people
- quito the capital of Ecuador
- guayaquil the largest city of Ecuador
- centavo a fractional monetary unit of several countries: El Salvador and Sao Tome and Principe and Brazil and Argentina and Bolivia and Colombia and Cuba and the Dominican Republic and Ecuador and El Salvador and Guatemala and Honduras and Mexico and Nicaragua and Peru and the Philippines and Portugal
- puka inti a small but violent terrorist organization formed in Ecuador in the early 1990s; responsible for bombing several government buildings
- cinchona pubescens small tree of Ecuador and Peru having very large glossy leaves and large panicles of fragrant pink flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark
- el nino (oceanography) a warm ocean current that flows along the equator from the date line and south off the coast of Ecuador at Christmas time