Ecuador

March 13, 2017

Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador , is a representative democratic republic in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Ecuador also includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) west of the mainland.

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Definition : a republic in northwestern South America; became independent from Spain in 1822; the landscape is dominated by the Andes