Ecuador a megadiverse country!

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First Step - know where you are travelling

First at all, let us congratulate you for thinking in Ecuador as your next dream destination, Ecuador is an unique country full of megadiverse. The phrase "Small is Beautifull" could have been coined specifically with Ecuador in mind, here you can watch dawn break over the jungle canopy, have a nice meal high in the Andean Mountains, and then watch the sun slip into the Pacific Ocean, all in the same day!

Located on zero latitude, Ecuador is divided into four distinct regions, where four seasons can occur in a single day. Discover this land from the eternal snow of the Andes, to the thick humid forests of the Amazon, to the sunny beaches along the Pacific coast and the fascinating Galapagos Islands.

Ecuador also boats extraordinary biological diverity; a fact that did not escape theattention of 18th- and 19th-century scientist and exploreres, who came, saw and compiled large volumes extolling its many virtues. The first to put Ecuador on the map was French savant, Charles-Marie de la Conadamine, who among a group of various scientists determined the precise location of the equatorial line here and so helped to give the country its name. The early 19th-century explorer, Alexander von Humboldt, was impresed by the snow-covered peaks running down the country´s spine, dubbing it the "Avenue of the Volcanoes". And it was a young englishman called Charles Darwin, who, in 1835, first brought the world´s attention to the Galápagos Islands - Ecuador´s premier attraction and the greatest wildlife shown on Earth.

 

 

Ecuadors highland (Andes)
The Andes region is weel know by its snow caped peaks and volcanos, as The early 19th-century explorer, Alexander von Humboldt, was impresed by the snow-covered peaks running down the country´s spine, dubbing it the "Avenue of the Volcanoes"

Ecuador’s Andean Region is the location of the world’s highest active volcano, the mythical Cotopaxi (5,897 meters above sea level) as well as the only snow-covered part of the equator, the Mt. Cayambe volcano at 5790 meters above sea level. The impressive Andean landscape never ceases to surprise. To the north of the region, the native “Polylepis” forest grows alongside the unique “frailejones”, a beautiful plant and symbol of the high Andean pampas.

Costal Region
Ecuador’s coast comprises hundreds of kilometers of extended, beautiful and mostly pristine beaches bordering the Pacific Ocean, where the lush green hills and tropical forests of the coastal cordillera frequently extend down to coastline itself, creating a fusion of color, sea and land.

The coastal region of Ecuador runs from north down to the south, bordered by the  Andes on the west and the blue Pacific on the east.  Populated by stretches of woodlands, including the last remnants of dry tropical forest in South America forests, and interspersed with open plains, the region provides a natural habitat and ecosystem for hundreds of species of fauna and flora.

Amazon Jungle (Oriente)

The Ecuadorian Amazon Region covers almost one half of the entire land surface of the country, extending from the slopes of the eastern Andes to the tropical plains of the world’s largest rainforest, crossed by the major tributaries of the mighty Amazon River as well as by many smaller rivers, lakes and waterways. Emitting vast quantities of oxygen, the region can be considered as the world’s principal lung, while seen from above it resembles a gigantic green ocean, exuberant and exotic, full of magic, mystery and adventure…

Galápagos Islands
Lying in the Pacific Ocean, one thousand kilometers or six hundred nautical miles off the coast of mainland Ecuador, to whom they belong, the Galapagos Islands constitute one of the world’s most important National Parks, and the first protected site to be declared by UNESCO, in 1979, as a World Natural Heritage Site.

The islands act as a natural laboratory whose isolation has converted them into the exclusive home of many unique and endemic animals and plants. Indeed, the profusion of endemic life on the Galapagos makes the islands one of the most extraordinary places on the earth for which word “unique” seems to have been especially designed.