Exotic plants of the Amazon

Ecuador part 2: 19-25 August 2008

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September 14th 2008
Amazon to Andes I spent the day of 19 August in Quito with a nice English lady I met at the hotel. We went to a museum (Museo del Banco Central) with an extensive exhibit of artefacts and information about all the different people who have inhabited the various regions of Ecuador over the millennia, up until the conquests of the Incas and finally the Spanish. Afterwards we took a bus (these are ... read more

South America » Ecuador » East

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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