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Ecuador - 'Andes and Amazon'
The Andes is the longest mountain chain in the world, stretching 4,500 miles along the western edge of the continent. It is scoured by quebrada (gorges) that are often too deep for the sun to penetrate, and roofed by soaring ice-capped peaks and the belching cones of more than forty active volcanoes. These are the highest tropical mountains and, in the entire world only the Himalayas and Pamirs of Asia rise higher.

But tiny Ecuador offers far more than just spectacular mountain landscapes. Within a day’s journey it is possible to cross from palm-fringed Pacific beaches, through banana plantations, over icy passes and smouldering volcanoes, into the depths of the Amazon rainforest.

Profile:
Area: 283,560 sq km
Population: 13.5 million
Population density: 48 people / sq km
Languages: Spanish and Amerindian languages (especially Quechua)
Conversation stopper: Exported labour is Ecuador’s second biggest revenue earner (after oil). An estimated 25% of all Ecuadorians live and work abroad.
Articles:
Andes and Amazon – on the South American overland trail
Trucking the Gringo-Trail – Ecuador to Bolivia

 

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