The Ecuadorian Armed Forces ( Fuerzas Armadas del Ecuador ) are part of the public forces and have the stated mission of the preservation of the integrity and national sovereignty of the national territory.

It involves the modernisation of military equipment, improvement of planning and operations within the Ecuadorian territory.

A much larger and better equipped Peruvian force quickly overwhelmed the Ecuadorian forces, driving them back and invading the Ecuadorian territory.

In 2012 relations came under strain when Julian Assange, founder of the Wikileaks website, entered the Ecuadorian embassy in London and sought asylum ; Assange had recently lost a legal case against his extradition to Sweden on charges of sexual assault and rape, but when within the embassy he was on diplomatic territory and beyond the reach of the British police.

In 1860, the city was the site of the Battle of Guayaquil, the last of a series of military conflicts between the forces of the Provisional Government, led by Gabriel García Moreno and General Juan José Flores, and the forces of the Supreme Chief of Guayas, General Guillermo Franco, whose government was recognized as possessing sovereignty over the Ecuadorian territory by Peruvian president Ramón Castilla.

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.

Ecuador had protested over the location of " Pachacútec " since it was, according to Ecuador, inside Ecuadorian territory, and went on to set up an outpost of its own (" Etza ") right in front of it.

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.

According to Ecuadorian accounts, during the meeting the Peruvian officer called to the attention of his Ecuadorian counterpart that the presence of Ecuadorian outposts in the headwaters of the Cenepa river constituted a violation of Peruvian territory, and that therefore the posts had to be abandoned and the troops moved back to the line of the Condor range.

While Ecuador had to give up its decades-old territorial claims to the eastern slopes of the Cordillera, as well as to the entire western area of Cenepa headwaters, Peru was compelled to give to Ecuador, in perpetual lease but without sovereignty, one square kilometer of its territory, in the area where the Ecuadorian base of Tiwinza — focal point of the war — had been located within Peruvian soil.

Moreover, the Peruvian government revealed that it held knowledge that during the war at least a couple of Ecuadorian C-130 transport airplanes had landed in Chilean territory to pick up 9mm ammunition, and that the Ecuadorian Air Force had planned three more of those armament acquisition voyages to Chile.

According to Peru's version Ecuadorian troops invaded Peruvian territory in the Zarumilla province, which started a battle that spread to a zone known as Quebrada Seca ( dry creek ).

View of the river ; the boats are on Ecuadorian territory, while the Peruvian side of the border ( to the right ) is uninhabited

* Paquisha War: Ecuador and Peru fought a war after Ecuadorian forces had established an outpost into territory that had been lost to Peru in 1942.

He was banished in 1882, went to Lima, organized a revolutionary expedition with which he left Callao on 14 April 1883, and landed in Ecuadorian territory three days afterward.

The Ecuadorian census is conducted by the governmental institution known as INEC, Instituto Nacional de Estadisticas y Censos ( National Institute of Statistics and Census ).

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.

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.

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

The prohibition was lifted in 1983, and although fundamental differences between U. S. and Ecuadorian legislation still exist, there is no current conflict.

It is formed from a multitude of water-courses which descend the slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes south of the gigantic volcano of Sangay ; but it soon reaches the plain, which commences where it receives its Cusulima branch.

On April 25, 2012, the Ecuadorian Space Agency announced that due a technological change in the video camera of its first satellite it will be adding a 3rd mission, which is to help organizations and individuals around the world monitor for small, most dangerous near-earth objects directly from orbit in real time and help fine tune the catalog of orbital debris by injecting the live video signal of the satellite into the Internet, thus turning the NEE-01 Pegasus in the first online, real-time video orbital sentry.

Today, few engravings and a scale model of the original design is preserved by the Maritime Museum of the Ecuadorian Navy.

* September 24 – Battle of Guayaquil: Ecuadorian forces led by Juan José Flores and Gabriel García Moreno take the port of Guayaquil from Supreme Chief Guillermo Franco, who is backed by Peruvian forces.

38. 1 % of Palmdale is Mexican, 6. 2 % Salvadoran, 2. 4 % Guatemalan, 0. 7 % Puerto Rican, 0. 5 % Cuban, 0. 4 % Honduran, 0. 4 % Nicaraguan, 0. 4 % Peruvian, 0. 3 % Ecuadorian, 0. 3 % Colombian, and 0. 2 % Argentinean.

It is also home to the fifty-first highest percentage of Ecuadorian residents, which made up 1. 18 % of the population.

) It is also home to the forty-sixth highest percentage of Ecuadorian residents in the US, at 1. 32 % of the population, as well as being home to the forty-second highest percentage of Honduran, at 1. 11 % ( tied with Atlantic City, New Jersey.

* Ilex guayusa – another caffeine-containing holly, also known as guayusa, is an Amazonian tree of the holly genus, native to the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest.

* In Ecuadorian card game " 40 ", when counting the amount of cards gathered in a hand, the limit is 19, after which the count starts at 6 and represents the points achieved during that hand.

The city is the capital of the Ecuadorian province of Guayas and the seat of the namesake canton.

His efigie is depicted on the Ecuadorian 50-cent coin since the 2000 issue.

It is accredited by AdvancED and the Ecuadorian Ministry of Education and Culture.

On 25 April 2012, the Ecuadorian Space Agency announced that due a technological change in the video camera of their first satellite, it will be adding a 3rd mission to it, which would be to help organizations and individuals around the world monitor for small, most dangerous near-earth objects directly from orbit in real time and help fine tune the catalog of orbital debris by injecting the live video signal of the satellite into the Internet, thus turning the NEE-01 Pegasus in the first online, real-time video orbital sentry, the satellite is expect to be launched on September 2012.

Corona is also represented by Ecuadorian American Francisco Moya and African American Jeffrion Aubry in the New York State Assembly.

The instrument of the indigenous communities of the Ecuadorian highlands is largely flute.

The Andean Condor is sometimes called the Argentinean Condor, Bolivian Condor, Chilean Condor, Colombian Condor, Ecuadorian Condor, or Peruvian Condor after one of the nations to which it is native.

The creation of TAME is the result of a clever fusion between the need for the Ecuadorian Air Force to finance itself and the decision to offer transport services to the most remote regions of the country.

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.

In 1941 the Ecuadorian Military found itself weak and disorganized ; the by now long-lasting territorial dispute with Peru escalated into a major conflict, the Ecuadorian – Peruvian War of 1941.

Black Ecuadorian music can be classified into two main forms.

The plot revolves around Sylvia, a ditzy psychic, and Nick, her equally odd psychic friend and their trip into the Ecuadorian Andes to find the " source of psychic energy ".

Ecuadorian farmers and indigenous residents accused Texaco ( now Chevron ), of making residents ill and damaging forests and rivers by discharging of formation water into the rainforest, without any environmental remediation.

The fact that all reinforcements and supplies had to be flown in by helicopter from Ciro Alegría base, more than 110 km to the south, meant that, in general, the Ecuadorian forces went into combat better armed and supplied.

By the same token, the Ecuadorian antiaircraft batteries and SAMs located on the heights made any helicopter low-level flight into the valley a rather dangerous proposition.

Entre Marx y una Mujer Desnuda ( Between Marx and a Nude Woman, 1995 ), by Ecuadorian Camilo Luzuriaga, provides a window into the life of young Ecuadorian leftists living in a country, plagued by the remnants of feudal systems and coups d ' état.

* On February 14, 1991, an Ecuadorian Air Force DHC-6 crashed into a mountain, killing the pilot and all 21 passengers on board.

* 1952: The party is renamed into Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party ( Partido Liberal Radical Ecuatoriana )

A poetry book by Alejandro Carrión named La sangre sobre la tierra is an excursion into epic poetry that begins with the “ Canto a la América Española ”, written to participate in a continent wide poetry competition convened in Mexico: the poem was short listed as the “ Ecuadorian ” selection and lost by one vote to the great Venezuelan poet Manuel Felipe Rugeles.

During the war, Peru occupied the western Ecuadorian province of El Oro and parts of the Andean province of Loja and advanced into the Amazonian area occupied by Ecuador, according to a status quo agreement signed in 1936.

* According to Peruvian accounts, some Ecuadorian troops from the garrison of Huaquillas, a town on the bank of the Zarumilla river, which then served as the status quo line in the extreme left of the Ecuadorian-Peruvian border, crossed into the Peruvian border post at Aguas Verdes, a town directly in front of Huaquillas, and opened fire on a Peruvian patrol.

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.

As a result of the strong protests, the Ecuadorian government was forced into a discussion with the indigenous Ecuadorians.

Soils in the south Ecuadorian páramo are characterized broadly into Andisols, Inceptisols, Histosols, Entisols, and Mollisols.

The format continued until 1967 when a number of changes occurred: 1 ) the regional tournaments were discontinued after the 1967 season ; 2 ) teams contesting the national championship from 1968 onwards were now part of the Primera Categoría ; and 3 ) a second level of Ecuadorian football ( Segunda Categoría ) was put into play and a system of relegation and promotion began in 1967.