Qatar World Cup opener, hosts against Ecuador. For most Chinese, the country is purely earthly and has no sense of existence. I don't know football, but I know a little bit about our planet. I'll talk to you about it today, Ecuador.
"A Clam" by Yukimura
The first time I heard the name of the country was in the song "A Clam" by Snow Village (the singer who exposed my age). It is about a clamshell that saw a laid-off female worker who disappeared for more than 2 years, only to learn that she had gone to Ecuador to make a living.
In fact, Snow Village may not know where Ecuador is and what it is like. It is just a distant, unverifiable geographical term, similar to the "country of Java". Whether the laid-off women workers actually went to Ecuador is unknown. Anyway, there is no way to verify.
Basic overview
This country is located on the Pacific coast of South America. On the Pacific coast of South America, the country with the most presence is Chile, which is attached to the American continent like a mobile phone case. Above Chile is the bi (four tones) Ru, above Peru is Ecuador, and above it is Colombia.
The land area is 256,370 square kilometers, which is slightly smaller than Yunnan Province.
The population is nearly 18 million, which is less than Beijing's permanent population.
With a GDP per capita of less than 6,000 knives, it is not too poor or rich – by comparison, China already has more than 10,000 knives.
The official currency of the country is the dollar - yes, you read that right. Originally, they also had their own currency, named after one of the founding fathers, called Sucre, which took more than a hundred years. But in 2000, they got so troublesome that they simply canceled it and went straight to using the dollar as their official currency.
Where did this country come from?
Ancient America can be roughly divided into three civilizations: from north to south, the Aztecs, the Maya and the Incas. Ecuador should belong to the Inca civilization. But this has little to do with the countries of the Americas today.
Modern American countries have their roots in colonial activities, with the most important colonizers coming from Spain. Spain called the Americas New Spain, and the center of rule (you can think of it as the provincial capital, or the General's Palace) was located in Mexico City. But later it was found that the area was too large to manage, and it was divided into four major governorships.
Roughly like this:
Viceroyalty of New Spain, with its capital city in Mexico City, governs Mexico + southwestern states of the United States + Caribbean island countries + small countries of the Central American Isthmus (excluding Panama)
Viceroyalty of Peru, with its capital city Lima, governs Peru + Chile
The Viceroyalty of New Granada, with its capital in Bogotá, governs Colombia + Venezuela + Ecuador + Panama
The Viceroyalty of La Plata, with its capital in Buenos Aires, governs Argentina + Uruguay + Paraguay + Bolivia
The original liberators of South America, Bolivar, San Martín, and Sucrena, had intended to package all of Spanish America, or at least Spanish South America, into a unified country. But it didn't work out. Since South Americans love freedom and do not want to accept the leadership of Madrid, why should they accept the leadership of Bogotá? Localities are more inclined to manage themselves. As a result, only the viceroyalty of New Granada existed briefly in the form of "Gran Colombia". After the death of the original leader, Bolívar, it continued to disintegrate into three countries: Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador.
So, Ecuador speaks Spanish and is Catholic.
Finally, to sum up: Ecuador is a New Granada viceroyalty established after the Spanish colonization of the Americas, which was split after independence.
Galapagos Islands
If you have to find the most well-known thing for this country and make a label, it should be the Galapagos Islands. This archipelago, far from the mainland and at the equator, is influenced by the Peruvian cold snap, forming a unique ecosystem that gives birth to many endemic species. Darwin arrived in 1835 aboard the Beagle. Inspired by it, he realized the theory of biological evolution and wrote "The Origin of Species".
The turtles and birds here are very distinctive. At the same time, penguins that are regarded as polar creatures live here. This penguin is relatively hardy and is kept by many zoos around the world to pose as Antarctic penguins.
In the field of social sciences, terms such as the Galapagos phenomenon have evolved. But not many people know that the Galapagos belongs to Ecuador.