His attempts to secularize Ecuadorian society were opposed by the Archbishop of Quito Federico González Suárez.

Enriquez was a general in the Ecuadorian army and served as minister of national defense in the government of Federico Páez.

* Federico González Suárez ( 1844 – 1917 ), Ecuadorian bishop and politician

Mariano Suárez Veintimilla ( 8 June 1897 – 23 October 1980 ) was Ecuadorian politician.

With classy players as Peruvian all-time great Germán Leguía, fellow countryman and international Juan Martín Caballero, Uruguayan playmaker Rodolfo Abalde and leading Ecuadorian players as Geovanny Mera, Jorge Alvear, Angel Buenaño, Juan Carlos Suárez, Ricardo Porras and Milton Rodríguez ; the team became serious title contenders in the late 1980s and, although never becoming champions, they were recognized as a great national footballing side that would several times maul the country's greatest teams including Barcelona and Liga, and classic rivals, Técnico Universitario.

* Mariano Suárez ( 1897 – 1980 ), Ecuadorian politician, Vice President of Ecuador

* Cristian Suárez ( Ecuadorian footballer ) ( born 1985 )

* Cristian Suárez ( footballer ) ( born 1985 ), Ecuadorian footballer

* Luis Fernando Suárez ( born 1959 ), Colombian football coach, currently coach of the Ecuadorian national football team

The team's first goal was scored by Ecuadorian player Humberto Suárez.

His major legacies are considered to be national unity, and the integrity of Ecuador's borders ; the increased secularization of the country ; and the modernization of Ecuadorian society through the introduction of new ideas, education, and systems of public transport and communication.

In turn, the " guarantors " ( Warrantors ) military considered both Ecuadorian and Peruvian moves as offensive in character, due to the fact that, lacking official border markers, the Ecuadorian and Peruvian military had long since agreed to consider the line of the Condor range a de facto border, already considered broken by both countries since 1981.

By the third week of January, the Peruvian high command had deployed to the Cenepa area what it considered to be enough troops to clear any and all Ecuadorian troops on the Eastern side of the Cordillera del Cóndor.

The missionary told him of the Waodani – also called the " Auca ", the Quichua word for savage – a group of Ecuadorian indigenous people considered violent and dangerous to outsiders.

The similar but allopatric Ecuadorian Thrush was formerly considered a subspecies of the Bare-eyed Thrush and named T. n. maculirostris ; it is now normally separated as a good species T. maculirostris.

He is often considered like the Ecuadorian José Joaquín Olmedo and the Cuban José Martí, patriots of their respective countries.

The plaintiffs in these four cases allege that DynCorp's spraying of fumigants injured the residents of these provinces, for which they are bringing claims under Florida state law, Ecuadorian law and international law.

Therefore, these factors inspired Colonel Luis A. Ortega to propose the creation of an Ecuadorian Air Force Airline.

It could be said that the Cenepa war had the same causes that brought about the Paquisha Incident of 1981, that is, the Peruvian discovery of Ecuadorian outposts on the eastern slopes of the Condor range, and below in the Cenepa valley, followed by the decision to dislodge the Ecuadorians from these locations by force.

However Durán-Ballén was never directly a part of these scandals and he is remembered for being one of the most honest politicians in the history of modern Ecuadorian politics.

The Ecuadorian – Peruvian War, also known as the War of ' 41 (), was a border war fought between July 5, 1941 and July 31, 1941, the first of three military conflicts that occurred between these two South American nations during the 20th century.

However, despite these claims, Peru also began to mobilize its troops to its border with Ecuador in order to match the Ecuadorian troops which had been deployed to the dispute zone.

In 1981, the Ecuadorian government hired medical journalist Dr. Morton Walker to study these people in depth.

A study of 209 plants from the Ecuadorian lowlands identified 11, 219 animals, representing more than 300 distinct species, many of which are found only on bromeliads.

* Enrique Tabara obtains an Ecuadorian government scholarship to study in Spain.

Encouraged by the events of the day before, the Ecuadorian A-37Bs launch even bolder ground-attack missions on Peruvian positions.

Faced with a delicate political situation that even prompted Ecuadorian President Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río to keep a sizable part of the Army in the capital, Quito, Ecuador promptly requested a cease-fire, which went into effect on July 31, 1941.

Most Ecuadorians speak Spanish, though many speak Amerindian languages such as Kichwa, the Ecuadorian dialect of Quechua.

The Inca civilization expansion northward from modern-day Peru during the late 15th century met with fierce resistance by several Ecuadorian tribes, particularly the Cañari, in the region around modern-day Cuenca ; the Cara in the Sierra north of Quito along with the Quitu, occupants of the site of the modern capital, with whom they had formed the Kingdom of Quito.

Toledo joined Ecuadorian President Noboa at the International Advisory Committee of the Binational Development Plan, where they called for greater investment in their region, with Toledo putting forth a detailed program for international assistance.

At the same time, the Ecuadorian Comando Conjunto de las Fuerzas Armadas, ( a military body equivalent to the Joint Chiefs of Staff ), publicly expressed that they were withdrawing their support for Gutiérrez, who had no option but to leave the Presidential Palace on a helicopter.

The military outcome of the brief conflict, vindicating the Ecuadorian armed forces after the disappointing results of the war of 1941, and by calling to the attention of the Peruvians the need for a resolution of a border dispute that they had so far been adamant in refusing to acknowledge, paved the way for a definitive settlement of the border issues.

Being told they had crossed into Ecuadorian territory, the Peruvians were escorted to the Ecuadorian outpost of " Base Sur ", where the patrol was given supplies before continuing their journey.

They also provided a basis for Shuar petitions to the Ecuadorian government for land ; in return Shuar promised to clear rainforest to convert to pasture, and the government provided loans for Shuar to purchase cattle which they would raise for market.

Ecuadorian hermit crabs vary greatly in colour, some are bright ( yellow, dark grey, or orange ), but more often they are a tan colour.

In 2001, the team was close to becoming the first Ecuadorian club to win an international title when they were a finalist in the 2001 Copa Merconorte.

They play in the Serie A, the highest level of the Ecuadorian professional football league where they are the current champions.

The best ever success for Audaz came about in the 1987-season being its president Teofilo Oyola Cevallos, when they finished 3rd in the Ecuadorian league, only losing out to Barcelona ( Guayaquil ) and Filanbanco ( Milagro, Guayas ).

* 2008 – León Febres Cordero, Ecuadorian politician ( b. 1931 )

* 1937 – Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian footballer ( d. 2006 )

Among the main towns of this period were the cultures: Jambelí, Guangala, Bahia, Tejar-Daule, La Tolita, Jama Coaque in the coast of Ecuador, in the sierras the Cerro Narrío Alausí ; and in the Ecuadorian Amazon jungle the Tayos.

The key battle of this civil war was fought on Ecuadorian soil, near Riobamba, where Huáscar's northbound troops were met and defeated by Atahualpa's southbound troops.

Bored with administering Central America, Alvarado had set sail for the south without the crown's authorization, landed on the Ecuadorian coast, and marched inland to the Sierra.

A multitude of reforms and regulations did not prevent the encomienda from becoming a system of virtual slavery of the Native Ecuadorians, estimated at about one-half the total Ecuadorian population, who lived on them.

The Ecuadorian economy, like that in the mother country, suffered a severe depression throughout most of the 18th century.

The Native Ecuadorian population, in contrast, probably experienced an overall improvement in its situation, as the closing of the obrajes commonly led Native Ecuadorians to work under less arduous conditions on either haciendas or traditional communal lands.

By 1859 — known by Ecuadorian historians as the Terrible Year — the nation was on the brink of anarchy.

Gabriel García Moreno was a leading figure of Ecuadorian conservatism.

Unlike all previous forays by the military into Ecuadorian politics, the coup of 1925 was made in the name of a collective grouping rather than a particular caudillo.

The protocol became the focus of a surge of Ecuadorian national pride and concomitant opposition which resulted in an uprising and overthrow of the government.

Galo Plaza differed from previous Ecuadorian presidents.

Galo Plaza brought a developmentalist and technocratic emphasis to Ecuadorian government.

No doubt Galo Plaza's most important contribution to Ecuadorian political culture was his commitment to the principles and practices of democracy.

Some Ecuadorian nationalists attributed it to the Peruvian government because the crash took place near the border where, the two nations had participated in a Paquisha War in their perpetual border dispute.

In 1996, Abdalá Bucaram, from the populist Ecuadorian Roldosista Party, won the presidency on a platform that promised populist economic and social reforms.

In April 2005, the Ecuadorian Armed Forces declared that it " withdrew its support " for the President.

The 2007-8 Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly drafted the 2008 Constitution of Ecuador, approved via the Ecuadorian constitutional referendum, 2008.

The Galápagos are located 1, 000 km west of the Ecuadorian coast.

The indigenous population has established itself as a significant force in Ecuadorian politics, as shown by the selection of indigenous representative Nina Pacari, who led the indigenous political party, Pachakutik, as second vice president of the 1969 Congress.

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.

Buoyed by higher oil prices, the Ecuadorian economy experienced a modest recovery in 2000-01, with GDP rising 2. 3 % in 2000 and 5. 4 % in 2001.