What is Ecuador?

A motto (from Italian) is a phrase or a short list of words meant formally to describe the general motivation or intention of an entity, social group, or organization.
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 Spanish, Castilian 
Writing system: Latin (Spanish variant)
Language codes
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Latin 
Official status
Official language of: Vatican City
Used for official purposes, but not spoken in everyday speech
Regulated by: Opus Fundatum Latinitas
Roman Catholic Church
Language codes
ISO 639-1: la
ISO 639-2: lat
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For the Radiohead song, see "The National Anthem".

A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that evokes and eulogizes the history, traditions and struggles of its people, recognized either by a country's government as the official
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"Salve, Oh Patria!" ("We Salute You, Our Homeland") is the national anthem of Ecuador. The lyrics were written in 1865 by the poet Juan León Mera, under request of the Ecuadorian Senate; the music was composed by Antonio Neumane.
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capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has a second meaning based on an alternative sense of "capital") is the center of government.
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San Francisco de Quito

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Nickname: Luz de América (Light of America)
Map of Ecuador showing location of Quito
Coordinates:
Country Ecuador
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Population: 13,212,742 (July 2004 est.)
Urban: 57%
Rural: 43%

Age structure:
0-14 years: 34.9% (male 2,430,303; female 2,351,166)
15-64 years: 60.6% (male 4,116,289; female 4,198,667)
65 years and over: 4.
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Santiago de Guayaquil

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Nickname: La Perla del Pacifico
Country Ecuador
Province Guayas
Canton Guayaquil (canton)
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An official language is a language that is given a special legal status in the countries, states, and other territories. It is typically the language used in a nation's legislative bodies, though the law in many nations requires that government documents be produced in other
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 Spanish, Castilian 
Writing system: Latin (Spanish variant)
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: —
ISO 639-3: —

Spanish (
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A demonym or gentilic is a word that denotes the members of a people or the inhabitants of a place. In English, the name of a people's language is often the same as this word, e.g., the "French" (language or people).
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government is a body that has the power to make and the authority to enforce rules and laws within a civil, corporate, religious, academic, or other organization or group.^[1]
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republic, for all other uses see: republic (disambiguation)

List of forms of government

• Anarchism
• Aristocracy
• Authoritarianism
• Autocracy
• Communist state
• Democracy

Direct democracy

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Ecuador

This article is part of the series:
Politics of Ecuador

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• President
• Rafael Correa
• Vice President
• Lenn Moreno
• National Congress of Ecuador

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Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado (born 6 April 1963 in Guayaquil) ^[1]is the President of the Republic of Ecuador. A trained economist, he previously served as the country's finance minister.
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Lenín Voltaire Moreno Garcés (b. 19 March 1953, in Nuevo Rocafuerte in the province of Orellana) has been the Vice-President of Ecuador since 15 January 2007. He and Rafael Correa were elected on 26 November 2006 during the 2006 general election.
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Independence is the self-government of a nation, country, or state by its residents and population, or some portion thereof, generally exercising sovereignty.

The term independence is used in contrast to subjugation,
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Motto
"Plus Ultra"   (Latin)
"Further Beyond"
Anthem
"Marcha Real" ¹
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May 24 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

Events

• 1218 - The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.

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Gran Colombia (Spanish for Greater Colombia) is a name used today for the Republic of Colombia of the period 1819-1831.

This short-lived republic in South America encompassed the territories of present-day Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama, as well as
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May 13 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

Events

• 1497 - Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.

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18th century - 19th century - 20th century
1800s  1810s  1820s  - 1830s -  1840s  1850s  1860s
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Water is a common chemical substance that is essential to all known forms of life.^[1] In typical usage, water refers only to its liquid form or state, but the substance also has a solid state, ice, and a gaseous state, water vapor.
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In mathematics, a percentage is a way of expressing a number as a fraction of 100 (per cent meaning "per hundred"). It is often denoted using the percent sign, "%". For example, 45 % (read as "forty-five percent") is equal to 45 / 100, or 0.45.
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population is the collection of people or organisms of a particular species living in a given geographic area or mortality, and migration, though the field encompasses many dimensions of population change including the family (marriage and divorce), public health, work and the
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list of countries ordered according to population. The list includes and ranks sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories. Figures are based on the most recent estimate or projection by the national census authority where available and generally rounded off.
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gross domestic product, or GDP, is one of the ways for measuring the size of its economy. The GDP of a country is defined as the total market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time (usually a calendar year).
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The purchasing power parity (PPP) theory was developed by Gustav Cassel in 1920. It is the method of using the long-run equilibrium exchange rate of two currencies to equalize the currencies' purchasing power.
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