Cities in South America whose streetcar companies purchased Birney cars included Concordia and Paraná, in Argentina, while Guayaquil in Ecuador obtained Birneys secondhand from Trenton, New Jersey.

The school also purchased more than of rainforest, known as Siempre Verde, in Ecuador for the purpose of establishing a research and education center.

Chile also concluded preferential trade agreements with Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador.

Regional treaties include the Andean Pact, now known as the Andean Community, which also includes Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru, the bodies and institutions making up the Andean Integration System ( AIS ).

As a result, Ecuador became the District of the South within the Republic of Gran Colombia, which also included present-day Venezuela and Colombia and had Bogotá as its capital.

Much of the century was also dominated with the relations between Peru and Ecuador.

On 5 July 2008 a meeting took place between Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador regarding a railway for freight and passengers to link the three countries, and linking the Pacific with the Atlantic also.

Environmental protection is also a priority, several programmes were implemented: " National Forestation and Ornamentation ", " Lonely Tree ", " Green Surveillance ", " Fire Plan ", " Ecuador Forest " and " Arenillas Military Reserve ".

Ecuador reportedly also employed Israeli security specialists as consultants in the fight against terrorism.

Ecuador is a founding member of the UN and a member of many of its specialized agencies ; it is also a member of the OAS.

Ecuador has also been an elective member of the UN Security Council.

This also creates ocean upwelling off the coasts of Peru and Ecuador and brings nutrient-rich cold water to the surface, increasing fishing stocks.

Being a part of the male dress, it also has a part in the cultural expressions of the coastal rural regions of Ecuador, such as dances, horsetaming contests and skill exhibitions.

Castro and Chavez have also been joined with the radical socialist agenda of Evo Morales of Bolivia and Rafael Correa of Ecuador.

For example, it is used in French presidential, legislative, and cantonal elections, and also to elect the presidents of Afghanistan, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, France, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Liberia, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Timor-Leste, Ukraine, Uruguay, Zimbabwe — see: Table of voting systems by nation.

* July 5-meeting between Venezuela, Colombia ( Colombia ) and Ecuador ( Ecuador ) regarding a railway for freight and passengers to link the three countries, and linking the Pacific with the Atlantic also.

* October 9, 1820 – Guayaquil declares independence from Spain ( see also History of Ecuador ).

Taco Bell is also present in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Guam, Aruba, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and on AAFES military bases in Japan, Germany, Iraq, Guatemala, and El Salvador.

Mortadella is also very popular in Argentina, Peru, Brazil, Ecuador, Chile, Uruguay and Venezuela, thanks to the Italian immigrants who settled in these countries in the early 20th century.

The pro-Albanian camp would start to function as an international group as well, led by Enver Hoxha and the APL, and was also able to amalgamate many of the communist groups in Latin America, including the Communist Party of Brazil and Marxist-Leninist Communist Party in Ecuador.

Striped bass have also been introduced into waters in Ecuador, Iran, Latvia, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, and Turkey primarily for sport fishing and aquaculture.

Coca has also been a vital part of the religious cosmology of the Andean peoples of Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia and northern Argentina and Chile from the pre-Inca period through the present.

It is one of the best known fruits of Southeast Asia and is also widely cultivated elsewhere in the tropics including Africa, the Caribbean islands, Costa Rica, Panama, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka ; it is also produced in Ecuador where it is known as " achotillo " and on the island of Puerto Rico .. Thailand is the largest producer from Surat Thani Province Thailand.

It continues to be a major part of the diet in Peru and Bolivia, particularly in the Andes Mountains highlands ; it is also eaten in some areas of Ecuador ( mainly in the Sierra ) and Colombia.

Type locality: Loja Province, Ecuador.

: Argentina ( 558 including a field hospital ), Bolivia ( 208 ), Brazil ( 2, 200 ), Canada ( 10 ), Chile ( 499 ), Croatia ( 3 ), Ecuador ( 67 ), France ( 2 ), Guatemala ( 118 ), Jordan ( 728 ), Nepal ( 1, 075 ), Paraguay ( 31 ), Peru ( 209 ), the Philippines ( 157 ), Sri Lanka ( 959 ), United States ( 4 ), and Uruguay ( 1, 135 ).

LAN Airlines has the following subsidiaries and shareholdings: LAN Cargo ( 99. 4 %), LAN Express ( 99. 4 %), ABSA-Aerolinhas Brasileiras ( 73. 3 %), LAN Perú ( 70 %), LAN Dominicana ( 49 %), LAN Ecuador ( 45 %), LAN Argentina ( 49 %), MasAir ( 39. 5 %) and Florida West International Airways ( 25 %).

Ecuador became a substantial customer for Israeli arms in the 1970s, purchasing Arava aircraft, Gabriel missile for naval patrol crafts and Uzi submachine guns.

It has contributed to United Nations peacekeeping operations worldwide, with Argentine soldiers / engineers and police / Gendarmerie serving in El Salvador – Honduras – Nicaragua ( where Navy patrol boats painted white were deployed ), Guatemala, Ecuador – Peru, Western Sahara, Angola, Kuwait, Cyprus, Croatia, Kosovo, Bosnia and East Timor.

Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Ecuador and Guatemala have the largest fleets of sport fishing boats.

* 1809 – Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain.

About 15 % of the population is foreign, most of them immigrants from Argentina, Ecuador, and Colombia who have arrived in the previous 10 years.

Abacá ( ; from Spanish " abacá " for Musa textilis ), Musa textilis, is a species of banana native to the Philippines, grown as a commercial crop in the Philippines, Ecuador, and Costa Rica.

Benalcázar, Pizarro's lieutenant and fellow Extremaduran, had already departed from San Miguel with 140 foot soldiers and a few horses on his conquering mission to Ecuador.

First, the country found itself on the front lines of Gran Colombia's efforts to liberate Peru from Spanish rule between 1822 and 1825 ; afterward, in 1828 and 1829, Ecuador was in the middle of an armed struggle between Peru and Gran Colombia over the location of their common border.

During this decade and the one that followed, Urbina and his archrival, García Moreno, would define the dichotomy — between Liberals from Guayaquil and Conservatives from Quito — that remained the major sphere of political struggle in Ecuador in the 1980s.

Ecuador encompasses a wide range of natural formations and climates, from the desert-like southern coast to the snowcapped peaks of the Andes mountain range to the plains of the Amazon Basin.

The economy of Ecuador is based mostly on exports of bananas, oil, shrimp, gold, other primary agricultural products and money transfers from nearly a million Ecuadorian emigrants employed abroad.

In 2000 Ecuador changed its currency from the sucre to the US dollar following a banking crisis.

Between 1983 and 1987, Ecuador imported an estimated US $ 460 million of arms, primarily from Italy, France, the United States and Britain.

The Colombian director of national police claimed three captured computers from the deceased FARC rebel leader Raúl Reyes document " tremendously revealing " and " very grave " links between Ecuador and Colombian rebels. March 2, 2008.

The United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office delivered a note to the Ecuadorian government in Quito reminding them of the provisions of the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987 which allow the British government to withdraw recognition of diplomatic protection from embassies ; the move was interpreted as a hostile act by Ecuador, with Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño stating that this " explicit threat " would be met with " appropriate responses in accordance with international law ".

In fisheries issues, the United States claims jurisdiction for the management of coastal fisheries up to 200 mile ( 370 km ) from its coast, but excludes highly migratory species ; Ecuador, on the other hand, claims a 200-mile ( 370-km ) territorial sea, and imposes license fees and fines on foreign fishing vessels in the area, making no exceptions for catches of migratory species.

The U. S. Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act then triggered an automatic prohibition of U. S. imports of tuna products from Ecuador.

Furthermore, in recent years, growing migration fluxes from the Far East ( notably, China and the Philippines ) and Latin America ( Ecuador, Peru ) have been recorded.

Ribbentrop who considered taking declarations of war from such small states as Costa Rica and Ecuador to be deeply humiliating refused to see any of the Latin American ambassadors and instead had Weizsäcker take the Latin declarations of war.

* 1830 – Ecuador gains its independence from Gran Colombia.

In Ecuador, any establishment with the title " Motel " is related to extramarital encounters ; in Argentina and Peru these hotels for couples are called " Albergue Transitorio " (" Temporary Shelter ") and offered for anything from a few hours to overnight stay with a decor based on amenities such as dim lights, a jacuzzi and a king-size bed.

* 1831 – Ecuador and Venezuela are separated from Greater Colombia.

For example, the flags of Venezuela, of Colombia, and of Ecuador all use variants of the flag of Great Colombia, the country they composed upon their independence from Spain, created by the Venezuelan independence hero Francisco de Miranda ; and the flags of Egypt, of Iraq, of Syria, and of Yemen are all highly similar variants of the flag of the Arab revolt of 1916 – 1918.

It dominated a territory that included ( from north to south ): Ecuador, part of Colombia, the northern half of Chile, and the north-west part of Argentina ; and from east to west, from Bolivia to the Amazonian forests and Peru.