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

The Ecuadorian Armed Forces has provided Military Observers and troops to the United Nations since 1948.

It advises on national defence and is conformed by the Chief of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces and the Commanders of all three branches of the Ecuadorian Armed Forces: The Army, Navy and the Air Force.

The Ecuadorian Army ( Ejército Ecuatoriano ) is the land component of the Armed Forces.

Ecuadorian Armed Forces

However, the controversy was once again ignited when General Víctor Manuel Bayas, former Chief of Staff of the Ecuadorian Armed Forces during the Cenepa War, made a series of declarations in regards to the armed conflict between Peru and Ecuador.

On March 1, 2008, Raúl Reyes and 14 of his fellow Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia guerrilla companions were killed while on the Ecuadorian side of the border by Colombian military forces.

By the end of December, profiting from its internal lines of communications, the Ecuadorian Army had strengthened to a considerable degree its presence in the area, having deployed a number of units, foremost among them several Special Forces formations, as well as artillery and BM-21 multiple rocket launchers on the heights of the Cordillera del Cóndor.

On the morning of Thursday, January 26, 1995, after three days of march, the Ecuadorian Special Forces detachment arrived undetected at the small Peruvian outpost " Base Norte " and launched a surprise attack on the unsuspecting garrison.

* January 26: Peruvian conscripts setting up a heliport behind the Ecuadorian outposts are attacked by Ecuadorian Special Forces, dislodging the Peruvians from the site ; the Ecuadorians name the place Base Norte.

Right from the very first clashes, the Ecuadorian Army committed Special Forces units all along the combat area.

The Peruvian and Ecuadorian Air Forces step up their activities.

The Ecuadorian territory is divided into five " Joint Task Force Zones " or Fuerzas de Tarea Conjunta, four on mainland Ecuador, the fifth being the Naval-zone ( including the Galapagos Islands ).

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.

This meant that Los Samanes ended up in the hands of the Issfa ( Instituto de Servicio Social de las Fuerzas Armadas ) the Ecuadorian army's social security agency.

Because of ESPOLI's administration by the Ecuadorian Police, matches between them have been unofficially called El Clásico de las Fuerzas del Orden ( the forces of order derby ).

The present day Ecuadorian Navy or ( Armada del Ecuador ) is a compact, efficient and well-balanced force.

In 1833, a hymn entitled Canción Ecuatoriana ( Ecuadorian Song ), of six verses, was published in the Gaceta del Gobierno del Ecuador No. 125 of December 28.

The process of demarcation, begun in mid-1942, came to a halt in 1948, when populist Ecuadorian President José María Velasco Ibarra declared the Protocol impossible to implement in the area of the Cordillera del Cóndor, claiming inconsistencies between the instructions of the Protocol and the geographical realities on the ground.

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 Ecuadorian base of Cóndor Mirador, in the summit of the Cordillera del Cóndor falls also under attack.

A woman in Ecuadorian dress participating in the 2010 Carnaval del Pueblo.

HBU's international history ended in 2001 when ABN AMRO sold the Ecuadorian operation it had inherited from the HBU to Banco del Pichincha ( est.

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.

CONAIE is composed of three regional federations: the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon ( Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas de la Amazonía Ecuatoriana ; CONFENIAE ) in the eastern Amazon region or Oriente ; The Confederation of Peoples of Quichua Nationality in the central mountain region ( Confederación de Pueblos de la Nacionalidad Kichuas del Ecuador ; ECUARUNARI ); and the Coordination of Indigenous and Black Organizations of the Ecuadorian Coast ( Coordinadora de Organizaciones Indígenas y Negras de la Costa Ecuatoriana ; CONAICE ).

On 2008 the Boca del Pozo's Madrid faction attended an international friendly between France and Ecuador in Grenoble, making them the first ever Ecuadorian organized fan group to attend a match in European soil.

* Empresa Eléctrica del Ecuador, a former Ecuadorian electric company

Empresa Eléctrica del Ecuador ( literally Electric Company of Ecuador ) or Emelec was the name of an Ecuadorian electric company based in the city of Guayaquil.

Currently, he owns a restaurant in Santiago, Chile whose name is Mitad del Mundo, in reference to his Ecuadorian origins, since Ecuador is located on the Equator Line, right at Latitude 0-0 '- 0 ".

* 1963 – Rafael Correa, Ecuadorian politician, President of Ecuador

* 1937 – Gustavo Noboa, Ecuadorian politician, 51st President of Ecuador

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

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.

The public finance of Ecuador consists of the Central Bank of Ecuador ( BCE ), the National Development Bank ( BNF ), the State Bank, the National Finance Corporation, the Ecuadorian Housing Bank ( BEV ) and the Ecuadorian Educational Loans and Grants.

Starting in 2007 with an economy surpassed by the economic crisis, Ecuador was subject to a number of economic policy reforms by Government that have helped steer the Ecuadorian economy to a sustained, substantial, and focused to achieve financial stability and social policy.

The military of Ecuador has been involved in border disputes with Peru ( Ecuadorian – Peruvian War, Paquisha War, Cenepa War ), and has provided Military Observers and troops to the United Nations since 1948.

In November 2003, an Ecuadorian United Nations Training Centre was established under the name of: ( La Unidad Escuela de Misiones de Paz “ Ecuador ”).

In 2010, the U. S. embassy in Ecuador announced that it had delivered $ 1. 2 million of donated military equipment to the Ecuadorian military.

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 ".

An example was dollarization in Ecuador, initiated in September 2000 in response to a 75 % loss of value of the Ecuadorian sucre in early 2000.

* Christian Democratic Union ( Ecuador ) ( Unión Demócrata Cristiana ), an Ecuadorian political party

; Improvisa ( Ecuador ): The Ecuadorian version was originally aired on Ecuavisa in 2008.

*- ian ( countries: Bahamas → Bahamian, Belarus → Belarusian, Belgium → Belgian, Bermuda → Bermudian, Brazil → Brazilian, Cameroon → Cameroonian, Canada → Canadian, Chad → Chadian, Egypt → Egyptian, Ecuador → Ecuadorian, Ghana → Ghanaian, Grenada → Grenadian, Iran → Iranian ( also " Irani " or " Persian "), Jordan → Jordanian, Laos → Laotian, Louisiana → Louisianian, Maldives → Maldivian, Palestine → Palestinian, Saint Vincent → Vincentian, Trinidad → Trinidadian, Ukraine → Ukrainian ; cities / states: Adelaide → Adelaidian, Athens → Athenian, Ballarat → Ballaratian, Boston → Bostonian, Brisbane → Brisbanian ( also " Brisbanite "), Calgary → Calgarian, Canary Islands → Canarian, Cardiff → Cardiffian, Castile → Castilian, Coventry → Coventrian, Edmonton → Edmontonian, Florida → Floridian, Fort Worth → Fort Worthian, Gibraltar → Gibraltarian, Hesse → Hessian, Houston → Houstonian, Isles of Scilly → Scillonian, Lethbridge → Lethbridgian, Liverpool → Liverpudlian, Louisville → Louisvillian, Madrid → Madrilenian, Manchester → Mancunian, McKinney → McKinnian, Melbourne → Melburnian, New Guinea → New Guinian, New Orleans → New Orleanian, Oregon → Oregonian, Paris → Parisian, Peterborough → Peterborian, Phoenix → Phoenician, Saskatoon → Saskatonian ( Saskabusher ), Thrace → Thracian, Washington → Washingtonian, Wellington → Wellingtonian )

By the terms of the Protocol, Ecuador agreed to withdraw its long-standing claim for rights to direct land access to the Marañon and Amazon rivers ; Peru agreed to withdraw Peruvian military forces from Ecuadorian territory.

* A new species of iguanid lizard ( Hoplocercinae, Enyalioides ) from southern Ecuador with a key to eastern Ecuadorian Enyalioides