Ecuador, surrounded by Columbia and Peru (Figure 1), is Latin America’s ninth largest country (283,561 km2, including the Galapagos Islands). It has two official languages (Spanish and Quichua) and a population of 14.9 million (2011) with a rapidly growing middle class. Petroleum accounts for over half of the export earnings.
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Marzano, G. (2016). Ecuador. In: Jafari, J., Xiao, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Tourism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01384-8_359
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