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Ecuador is one of the smallest countries of South America covering an area of 256,370 square kilometers. It consists of four regions: the coast (la Costa), the mountains (la Sierra), the Amazon (el Oriente), and the Galapagos Islands. The country is incredibly diverse: “In a single day’s drive in Ecuador it is possible to pass though Andean paramos (moors at a high elevation), cloud forests, lowland rain forests, marshes, mangrove swamps, as well as desert beaches” (Forsyth and Miyata 1984: 7).
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Wierucka, A. (2013). Ecuador. In: Huaorani of the Western Snippet. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137539885_2
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