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Education in Ecuador. The Ecuadorian Constitution requires that all children attend school until they achieve a “basic level of education,” which is estimated at nine school years. The Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) [1] finds that Ecuador is fulfilling only 83.4% of what it should be fulfilling for the right to education based ...
Sucre until 2000, replaced by the US dollar and Ecuadorian centavo coins. Ecuador, [ a ] officially the Republic of Ecuador, [ b ] is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. Ecuador also includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 1,000 ...
Guillermo Alberto Santiago Lasso Mendoza ( Latin American Spanish: [ɡiˈʝeɾmo ˈlaso]; born 16 November 1955) is an Ecuadorian businessman, banker and politician who served as the 47th president of Ecuador from 2021 to 2023. [ 1][ 2] He was the country's first conservative president in nearly two decades, marking a shift in the country's ...
Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado ( Spanish pronunciation: [rafaˈel βiˈsente koˈre.a ðelˈɣaðo]; born 6 April 1963) is an Ecuadorian politician and economist who served as President of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017. The leader of the PAIS Alliance political movement from its foundation until 2017, Correa is a democratic socialist and his ...
The History of Ecuador covers human habitation in the region reaching back 8,000 years. During that period a diversity of cultures have influenced the people and the land that today make up the contemporary Republic of Ecuador. Indigenous tribes inhabited the area for millennia before being invaded and absorbed into the Inca Empire in the early ...
Oswaldo Guayasamín won first prize at the Ecuadorian Salón Nacional de Acuarelistas y Dibujantes in 1948. He also won the first prize at the Third Hispano-American Biennial of Art in Barcelona in 1955. In 1957, at the Fourth Biennial of São Paulo, he was named the best South American painter. In 1988, the Congress of Ecuador asked ...
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. Ecuador also includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 1,000 kilometers (621 mi) west of the mainland. The country's capital is Quito and its ...
Pisac, Peru. Quechua people ( / ˈkɛtʃuə /, [ 7][ 8] US also / ˈkɛtʃwɑː /; [ 9] Spanish: [ˈketʃwa]) or Quichua people may refer to any of the indigenous peoples of South America who speak the Quechua languages, which originated among the Indigenous people of Peru. Although most Quechua speakers are native to Peru, there are some ...