¿Why you must visit Ecuador on

your next vacations?

 Content

• 1. Basic information
• 2. Interest facts about
Ecuador
• 3. The four worlds
• 4. Put Ecuador in your
agenda
 Basic information about Ecuador

• Location: Middle of the world

• Capital: Quito
• Population: 17.000.000
• Area: 283.560 km²
• Weather: Only 2 seasons
• 4 regions called “worlds”
• Currency: American dollar
• Language: Spanish and Quechua
10 facts about Ecuador
 1. A megadiverse country…
Ecuador is one of
17 megadiverse
countries in the
world, and has the
most biodiversity
per square
kilometre of any
nation.
Ecuador owns 18%
of the world's
birds.
 2. A high experience…
• Quito, Ecuador’s capital city, is 2,850m above sea
level, making it the highest official capital city in the
world.
 3. An inspiring country…
• Charles Darwin visited Ecuador’s 
Galápagos Islands in 1835 and largely
based his theory of evolution on the
discoveries he made there.
 4. A chic country…
• The Panama hat is
actually from Ecuador.
Straw hats woven along
the Ecuadorian coast
were taken to Panama
initially to be sold to canal
workers and, after the
canal opened, to affluent
westerners passing
through the Panama
Canal.
 5. A heritage place, or several ...
• Ecuador has the world’s first and second UNESCO World Heritage
Sites. At the inaugural UNESCO World Heritage conference in 1978, 32
sites were initially designated. Every World Heritage Site has a number –
site #1 is the Galápagos Islands and #2 is the city of Quito.
 6. Banana, chocolate and roses republic…
• Ecuador is the world’s largest
exporter of bananas, accounting
for up to 29% of all bananas
exported in 2011.
• Ecuador is the world’s largest
exporter of roses, produces
more than 400 varieties of roses.
• Ecuador is the largest producer
of fine aroma cocoa, with more
than 70% of world production
 7. Like Chile…
•  Ecuador is one of
only two countries
in South America
that does not
share a border
with Brazil.
 8. Love Pacha mama
• In 2008, Ecuador was
the first country to
officially recognise the
rights of nature. Rather
than treating nature as
property, Ecuador
recognises that nature
has constitutional rights
and has the “right to
exist, persist, maintain
and regenerate its vital
cycles”.
 9. The closest country to space…
• The summit of Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador’s highest mountain, is the
point on Earth closest to the sun. Due to the mountain’s location along
the equatorial bulge, its summit is the farthest point from the Earth’s
core. 
 10. Ecuadorians live near from the death

• Located one hour from Quito, the Cotopaxi volcano is

the highest active volcano in the world
 Four worlds in Ecuador
• Like nowhere else, all in one place, so close…
 Pacific Coast
• More than 110 beaches
• The Ecuadorian shores
qualify as the best whale
watching locations in the
world. Each year from
June to September,
Ecuador’s coastlines
swarms with tens of
thousands of migrating
humpback whales
• Best food in Ecuador
 The Andes
• Crowded of mountains,
volcanoes, glaciars, valleys,
rivers and lagoons.
• The most beautiful
indegenous villages with
colorfoul markets.
• Beautiful colonial and
heritages city as Quito, and
Cuenca.
 Amazon Rainforest
• Wildlife, and deep
biodiverse.
• Indigenous villages.
• National Parks and
Protected Areas of
the biosphere
• Big waterfalls and
rivers you can
navegate.
 Galapagos Island
• The Galapagos Island
are likely the most
popular and well-known
treasure in Ecuador. 
• One of the 7 most
important places in the
world to practice diving.
 In resume, you must go to Ecuador in your
next vacacations because:
• It’s a megadiverse place to enjoy life
everything so close with short distances.
• After of Chile, Ecuador have the best roads in
Southamerica.
• After of Chile and Uruguay, Ecuador is the
third most security country of Southamerica.
• With an estimated $ 30 per day, it is one of the
cheapest countries in the region to travel.
Thank you!