Milagro, Ecuador
Milagro (Spanish for miracle) is a city located in Guayas, Ecuador.
Articles in Ecuador ( 287 )
287 Articles of interest in Ecuador
Click on them to get its location and coordinatesMariscal Lamar International Airport
Mariscal Lamar International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Mariscal Lamar) (IATA: CUE, ICAO: SECU) is an airport serving Cuenca, a city in the province of Azuay in Ecuador.
Estadio Modelo Alberto Spencer Herrera
Estadio Modelo is a multi-purpose stadium in Guayaquil, Ecuador, owned by Fedeguayas. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Rocafuerte Fútbol Club, Club 9 de Octubre, Club Sport Patria, Club Deportivo Everest, C…
Cerro Azul (Ecuador volcano)
Cerro Azul (Spanish: Blue Hill) is a shield volcano on the south western part of Isabela Island in the Galápagos Islands.
Zamora, Ecuador
Zamora (Spanish pronunciation: [saˈmoɾa]) is a city in southeastern Ecuador, capital of Zamora-Chinchipe province and cantonal head of Zamora Canton.
Sangolquí
Sangolquí is a suburb of Quito and is the seat of the Rumiñahui canton in the province of Pichincha, in northern Ecuador.
Puná Island
Puná Island is an island off the coast of southern Ecuador at approximately 80 degrees west longitude and 3 degrees south latitude. It is located at the head of the Gulf of Guayaquil, south of the mouth of the Guayas River and the city of Guayaquil,…
Papallacta
Papallacta is a small village in Napo Province, Ecuador located at an altitude of 3,300 m in the Andes just off the Eastern Cordilleras on the road from Quito which leads into the Amazon jungle. The scenic drive from Quito to Papallacta passes throu…
Nameless Island
Nameless Island (Spanish: Isla Sin Nombre) is an islet of the Galapagos Islands group, in Ecuador.
Gulf of Guayaquil
The Gulf of Guayaquil is a large body of water of the Pacific Ocean in western South America.
Zaruma
Zaruma, officially Villa Real de San Antonio del Cerro de Oro de Zaruma is a town in the south of Ecuador, El Oro Province. It is located in the south-east of this province, at an altitude of 1200 metres above sea level, on an inter-Andes route wher…
Vulqano Park
Vulqano Park is an amusement park in Quito, Ecuador.
Sarayaku
Sarayaku (Quechuan: "The River of Corn"; also transcribed Sarayacu) is a territory and a village, situated by the Bobonaza River in the province of Pastaza in the southern part of the Amazonic region of Ecuador, el Oriente. The territory incorporate…
Puerto Bolívar
Puerto Bolivar is part of the municipality of Machala, El Oro Province, Ecuador. Puerto Bolívar is one of the world's largest shipment points for bananas, most of them destined for Europe; about 80% of Ecuador's banana production is shipped through …
Marchena Island
The island's name, Marchena Island, comes from the Spanish monk, Frey Antonio de Marchena. It has an area of 130 km² and a maximum altitude of 343 meters.
General Ulpiano Paez Airport
General Ulpiano Paez Airport (IATA: SNC, ICAO: SESA) is a public/military joint-use airport located near Salinas, a city in the province of Santa Elena in Ecuador.
Cotacachi Canton
Cotacachi is a canton of Imbabura province of Ecuador in South America.
Cordillera Real (Ecuador)
The Cordillera Real (also Cordillera of Quito, Cordillera Central of Ecuador) is a chain of mountains in the Andes of Ecuador, the largest of them volcanic. They are continued by the Cordillera Central of Peru to the south and the Cordillera Central…
Black Turtle Cove
Black Turtle Cove (Spanish: Caleta Tortuga Negra) is a mangrove estuary on the northern shores of Santa Cruz Island in Ecuador's Galapagos Islands. The national park has strict regulations to protect this pristine environment. Tourists may visit the…
2008 Conviasa Boeing 737 crash
A Conviasa Boeing 737-291 Advanced (registered as YV-102T) ferry flight from Maiquetia, Venezuela to Latacunga, Ecuador crashed into Illiniza Volcano. The aircraft had been stored at Caracas and was being ferried to a new owner.
1797 Riobamba earthquake
The 1797 Riobamba earthquake occurred at 12:30 UTC on 4 February. It devastated the city of Riobamba and many other cities in the Interandean valley, causing up to 40,000 casualties. It is estimated that seismic intensities in the epicentral area re…
Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo
Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo (UEES) is a non-profit private university located in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Founded by Dr. Carlos Ortega Maldonado, it was accredited by CONESUP, then the Ecuadorian higher education governing agency. Its mo…
San Cristóbal Canton
San Cristóbal Canton is a canton of Ecuador in the Galápagos Islands archipelago and one of the oldest in this insular geological formation.
Pasochoa
Pasochoa (4,200 metres) is an extinct volcano located in the Guayllabamba river basin in the Ecuadorian Andes. The current mountain form is a collapsed crater with a semicircular shape.
Museo Antropologico y de Arte Contemporaneo
Museo Antropologico y de Arte Contemporaneo (English: "Anthropology and Contemporary Art Museum"), or MAAC is a state-of-the-art museum in Guayaquil, Ecuador celebrating Ecuadorian, Latin American and Pre-Columbian art and culture. MAAC is a welcome…
Mompiche
Mompiche is a small fishing village at the south end of a large bay just south of the city of Esmeraldas, Ecuador.
Lago Agrio Airport
Lago Agrio Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto de Lago Agrio) (IATA: LGQ, ICAO: SENL) is an airport serving Nueva Loja (also known as Lago Agrio), the capital city of the canton of Lago Agrio and the province of Sucumbíos in Ecuador.
La Libertad, Ecuador
La Libertad is a city located in western Santa Elena, Ecuador, by the sea.
Isla Corazón
Isla Corazon is a naturally heart-shaped mangrove island, located on the Chone River estuary off the city of Bahía de Caráquez in Ecuador's coastal province of Manabi.
Estadio Bellavista
Estadio Bellavista is a multi-use stadium in Ambato, Ecuador. It is used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Mushuc Runa, Macará, and Técnico Universitario. The stadium holds 20,000 spectators and is located on Bolivariana Avenue,…
Estadio Alejandro Serrano Aguilar
Estadio Alejandro Serrano Aguilar is a multi-purpose stadium in Cuenca, Ecuador. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Club Deportivo Cuenca and Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Cuenca. The stadium holds 22,000 s…
Cordillera Occidental (Ecuador)
The Cordillera Occidental range is one of two main mountain ranges in the Andes in Ecuador, the other being the Cordillera Central. It spans the whole country from north to south.
Battle of Guayaquil
The Battle of Guayaquil was the final and pivotal armed confrontation of the Ecuadorian Civil War. The battle was fought on the outskirts of the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador on September 22 – 24, 1860 among several factions claiming control of the cou…
University of Guayaquil
The University of Guayaquil (Spanish: Universidad de Guayaquil), known colloquially as the Estatal (i.e., "State", in the same sense as, for example, a school such as "Iowa State" would simply be called "State" by local students), is a public univer…
Salasaca
Salasaca is located in the Tungurahua Province in the center of Ecuador, halfway along the road from Ambato to Baños. The Salasacas speak Spanish and Quichua.
Old Cathedral of Cuenca
The Church of the Shrine (Spanish: Iglesia del Sagrario) — commonly referred to as the Old Cathedral of Cuenca (Spanish: Catedral Vieja de Cuenca) — was the main place of Spanish worship during the time of Spanish colonization in Cuenca, Ecuador.