Hummingbirds in front of hostal

Mindo

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November 12th 2007
The past four days I have spent in Mindo. Mindo is 2 hours from Quito, is in the cloud forest and is renowned for being one of the places with the highest wildlife biodiversity in the world. A cloud forest is is a generally tropical or subtropical evergreen montane moist forest characterized by a high incidence of low-level cloud cover, usually at the canopy level. It is usually found at the east ... read more

South America » Ecuador » North » Bellavista Cloud Forest

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The "Republic of the Equator" was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Colombia and Venezuela). Between 1904 and 1942, Ecuador lost territories in a series of conflicts with its neighbors. A b... ... read more